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Any NSW lockdown surrender will imperil national recovery: PM

Phillip Coorey

The NSW government will jeopardise the planned national recovery from COVID-19 if it gives up the fight to suppress the coronavirus outbreak in Greater Sydney, as Gladys Berejiklian has indicated, Scott Morrison warned.

With NSW reporting a record 356 cases and three more deaths on Tuesday, the Prime Minister expressed concern at the increasingly defeatist language of the NSW Premier that vaccination, rather than suppression, was the ticket out of lockdown.

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Phillip Coorey is the political editor based in Canberra. He is a two-time winner of the Paul Lyneham award for press gallery excellence. Connect with Phillip on Facebook and Twitter. Email Phillip at pcoorey@afr.com

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