Demonstrators at Houston Methodist Baytown Hospital in Baytown, Texas, protest against a policy that says hospital employees must get vaccinated against COVID-19 or lose their jobs.
About 35 per cent of people in Arkansas are fully vaccinated, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and only two states — Mississippi and Alabama — have lower rates of inoculation.
By contrast, 56 per cent of people in the state of New York, a Democratic stronghold, have been fully vaccinated.
9News journalist Chris O’Keefe is saying NSW COVID-19 numbers will be above 120 today, with a jump in the number infectious in the community.
Mr Joyce, in an all-staff email seen by The Australian Financial Review, says the lockdowns in the three states have reduced its domestic capacity below 40 per cent of pre-pandemic levels and was now planning for two scenarios.
“We know travel demand rebounds quickly and, if the current lockdowns end when scheduled, then group domestic capacity should be back at around 60 per cent in August,†the email said.
Speaking on ABC Breakfast this morning, Ms Palaszczuk said now Brisbane has been awarded the 2032 Games, she and the Brisbane Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner and the federal sports minister Richard Colbeck “are expected to go†to the opening ceremony.
He also told ABC Radio that about 100 police officers are isolating at home across the state for 14 days after having either been at the growing list of exposure sites which has stretched to beyond 60, or having been identified as potentially coming in contact with a COVID-19 case.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison was on 4BC radio in Brisbane this morning pleading for eligible Queenslanders to consider the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine
People have perfect hindsight after these events,†Scott Morrison said of the vaccine rollout. Alex Ellinghausen
“Don’t wait for what’s happening in another state to potentially happen in your state,†he said
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