Sydney lockdown has ‘two effective vaccines’ to stop virus transmission

Former Deputy Chief Medical Officer Dr Nick Coatsworth says the New South Wales state government’s mid-September modelling is one of a “range of scenarios” and does not mean the lockdown will be extended to then. “The lockdowns are working, we’re not in an exponential rate of rise, we’re waiting for those numbers to plateau and at that point we’ll know that the contact tracers have got on top of the transmission chains and we’ll be heading in the right direction,” he told Sky News Australia. Dr Coatsworth said Sydneysiders affected by lockdown will have to “take this day by day” and the hope to curtail the virus is through vaccination and lockdown. “The great hope that we have here that we didn’t have in Melbourne’s second wave is we’ve got an effective vaccine in Pfizer and AstraZeneca, two effective vaccines that are available.” “You can break an epidemic curve in two with extensive vaccination and that’s the second piece of the puzzle here.” Via news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site https://www.news.com.au