Federal government prepares COVID-19 booster shot campaign ahead of Christmas

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Health secretary Brendan Murphy says the emergence of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus makes getting a booster vaccination more important.

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"In the light of the Omicron variant we do believe that boosters are going to be much more important," Prof Murphy told reporters in Melbourne after receiving his Moderna booster shot with Health Minister Greg Hunt. He said more than 670,000 Australians had already received more than two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine.Genomic testing into additional Omicron cases continues, with the state tally up to 45 as of Saturday.As of Saturday, Victorian authorities were responding to three existing Omicron infections.South Australia added 10 infections to its COVID caseload, six of them close contacts and one which originated interstate, while the sources of the other three are still to be determined.

Queensland fully opens its border on Monday, the first time in 229 days that people won't have to quarantine on arrival provided they are fully vaccinated.

 

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Starting to suspect that there's no such thing as omicron... same Delta... but people still getting sick...these vaccines just don't work ... but they're all covering their incompetence ...

If we gave some of our vaccines to African countries there wouldn't be an Omicron variant. Wealthy countries need to share first and then get boosters.

Code for panic

You pretend to be naively or really stupid

3 months in the UK.

Yep but not five months down the track and is it any better at saving morbidly obese, older group with co morbidities et al or just saving the already saved😎

Can we please not follow Murphy’s advice? He’s a Morrison Yes-man, he’s bungled our response from the start.

Not listening to Murphy - he's beholden to Liberal Party corruption

If it’s not fatal and has mild symptoms wouldn’t it be good just let people catch it?

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