Queensland threatens to keep Covid-19 border closures
3 years, 7 months ago

Queensland threatens to keep Covid-19 border closures

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Queensland has joined Western Australia in threatening to renege on the national plan to live with coronavirus once 80 per cent of the population is vaccinated. Deputy Premier Steven Miles on Sunday said Queensland may keep its border closed to NSW if the southern state has high case numbers, regardless of vaccination rates. Queensland protesters demanded the NSW border open in a large rally on Sunday With Victoria and NSW in lockdown due to rising case numbers, Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk tweeted that her state had zero new infections on Sunday 'We're not going to get ahead of ourselves. With Victoria and NSW in lockdown due to rising case numbers, Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk tweeted that her state had zero new infections. Queensland has threatened to keep its NSW border closed even if the country reaches 70 per cent vaccination West Australian Premier Mark McGowan threatened this last week, telling Sky News: 'Our preferred option is zero Covid obviously and that's what we'll attempt to do.

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