Barnaby confident in PM’s four-phase plan out of COVID

Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce says National Cabinet's 70 per cent vaccine target is achievable by the end of the year as he urged Australians to get the jab. Prime Minister Scott Morrison provided a pathway out of COVID-19 suggesting Australia can reach a 70 per cent vaccination rate by the end of 2021. Mr Morrison said Friday's National Cabinet had agreed on its four-phase plan out of COVID-19 after the Doherty Institute provided its vaccination modelling. "There is the capacity as we move between now and Christmas to basically have that rate, where around or about that 70 per cent," Mr Joyce said. The deputy prime minister told Sky News Australia he would like that number to be "higher" and said "any vaccine is better than the risk of not having one". "I know people have concerns about Astrazeneca, but let's get this right," he said. "Your chance of dying of the Astrazeneca is one in a million, it's about a thousand more times likely you'll die driving a car." Via news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site https://www.news.com.au