Can someone call the PM just get him to stop talking. I am confused now, I thought getting the population vaccinated would abate the need for lockdowns, Scott Morrison appears to say otherwise.
Vaccines ‘not a substitute for a lockdown’: PM
Mr Morrison said vaccines were not the key to greater Sydney coming out of lockdown.
That is despite state premiers and health officials repeatedly telling the general public that getting a Covid-19 jab would be an eventual ticket to freedom.
“There‘s not an easy way to bring the cases down and it’s the lockdown that does that work,” Mr Morrison said.
An empty Pitt Street Mall in Sydney amid lockdown. Picture: Richard Dobson“The vaccines can provide some assistance, but they’re not what is going to end this lockdown.
Mr Morrison said he did not want it in “anyone’s mind that it replaces the principle tool, which is the lockdown”.
“It’s not a substitute for a lockdown. And you need to weigh up the effectiveness of that with the disruption to the broader vaccine program that could set other states and territories back some way in meeting their vaccination targets,“ he said.
“We need to get the whole country vaccinated. Those going through lockdowns, that‘s the principle way by which we’re able to bring the Delta variant under control in those cities.”