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Victorian Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton.

Sutton joins call for ‘recovery phase’ in national COVID-19 plan

Victorian CHO Brett Sutton and health economist Stephen Duckett say the national cabinet’s road map out of the pandemic is missing a phase to address economic and mental health impacts.

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Vaccination should be an entry requriement for events inlcuding music festivals both as a public health measure and an incentive to get people immunised, Dr Duckett said.

Call for million-dollar lotteries, music festival restrictions to shift ‘moveable middle’ on vaccination

The Grattan Institute says incentives will be needed to encourage the 20 per cent of the population that is neither here nor there about vaccinations to get immunised sooner rather than later.

  • Rachel Clun

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