‘NSW facing greatest threat since pandemic started’, premier Gladys Berejiklian warns – video

The New South Wales premier, Gladys Berejiklian, has announced stricter lockdown measures following 44 new locally acquired Covid-19 cases, saying low vaccination rates are a significant concern. ‘We cannot live with this variant,’ she says. ‘No place on Earth has unless they have their vaccination rates much, much higher than what we do. Because otherwise it subjects the population to thousands and thousands of hospitalisations, thousands of deaths.’

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