NSW and Queensland allow close contacts of Covid cases to work as states face food shortages

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NSW allows close contacts of Covid cases to work as state faces food shortages

The NSW government said workers in the agriculture, food logistics, transport and manufacturing sectors who had been furloughed as close contacts would be permitted to leave isolation if their employer determined their absence posed “a high risk of disruption to the delivery of critical services or activities”.

 

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The PM really knows how to keep an economy rolling, that's for sure... the Premiers that ran along after him are on the wrong side of history.

Dom_Perrottet please explain.

This is what a pandemic looks like when certain politicians get their fingers on it

FOOD IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANY COVID-19 AGENDA.

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