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Infection super agency to lead future pandemic response

Tom Burton

Australia’s new infection super agency will be given authority to co-ordinate national responses and manage any future pandemic as the centrepiece of the COVID-19 review due to be handed to government on Monday.

Legislation will give the Australian Centre for Disease Control powers to act quickly in the case of a new COVID-like pathogen, leading and advising on infection control.

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Tom Burton was government editor at The Australian Financial Review.

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