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Host Michael Rowland:
Just on Omicron, you might have caught up with the news just in the last hour or so, Boris Johnson, the UK prime minister, made an address to the nation there. He’s declared a tidal wave of Omicron case is about to hit the UK.
He’s declared it a public health emergency, and has declared that all British adults over the age of 16 can get a booster shot by the end of the year. Taking that into account, are we being a bit too sanguine about Omicron here in Australia?
We saw the medical advice, and that saw a pause for two weeks of the reopening of the border to international students and to skilled workers.
That was a precautionary measure. But we will continue to listen and follow the health advice, and it has served us well to date.
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