Chief Medical Officer flags National Cabinet plan to ease restrictions | Sky News Australia

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Lockdown measures could soon be lifted after Chief Medical Officer Brendan Murphy said the National Cabinet was working on a plan to relax measures in what would likely be a staggered approach.

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Mr Murphy said the cabinet was "seriously looking" at which measures it could ease as it worked through the development of a package that would "return our society to as much normality as we can safely do". More than 4.

5 million Australians have downloaded the government's COVIDSafe app - a measure Mr Murphy said would expedite the likelihood of restrictions being relaxed. "The more we have signed up of those 16 million, the more confidence I'll be able to give National Cabinet they'll be able to make a decision," Mr Murphy said. "The more confidence they have, the bolder they might be.

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Every day we leave home completely aware of 101 ways we could die, and we (for the most part) manage that risk. But introduce a new way to die (albeit overstated), and everyone loses their minds. Humanity made it this far, beyond all odds; we got this.

Get on with it.🦠😌

This man is an incompetent greenie with his own agenda.

Hmmm......keep your app.

Our winter is comming then you will see this appear and it's second wave ..big mistake to let gambling NRL ..just greed that's it right....shameful just shameful...

What right has NRL got to run it's game ... that should be the last thing on our country mind is stupid sport ...it's bullshit money hungry gambling business...it's should be last in this epidemic

VictorianCHO in case you missed it. auspol

Travel restrictions last. When we have a vaccine.

Don’t be in a hurry we are almost there to remove corona from Australia. Community transmission and missing links are major problem. Hope COVIDSafe app solve the puzzle.

Staggered approach being...how about we let this group of people out and see what happens.

Good on you 🇦🇺 . Be kind to communities. Look at budgets, come up with better plans to safeguard families who toiled to save for homes ScottMorrisonMP JoshFrydenberg DanielAndrewsMP JennyMikakos GladysB AnnastaciaMP marshall_steven AlboMP

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