Mask up to save Christmas as 200,000 cases a day feared
Scott Morrison and state premiers are facing renewed pressure to speed up the COVID-19 booster shot rollout and implement Christmas mask mandates, as expert modelling warned of a surge of 200,000 daily infections as soon as the end of next month.
Despite record case numbers on Tuesday, NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet resisted calls to toughen indoor mask rules in Australia’s most populous state, instead promising to consider new modelling provided to the national cabinet during emergency talks on Wednesday.
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