Australia's hermit leaders finally get real: Northern Territory chief minister warns zero-Covid is gone and it's time to 'learn to live with the virus'
Chief Minister Michael Gunner says Covid-zero is no longer a reality in the NT Revised suppression strategy to focus on how fast virus spreads in community Outbreak of 61 Covid cases have spread from to three Aboriginal communities More than 91 per cent of NT residents aged 16 and over are vaccinated No new Covid cases detected in the NT in the 24 hours to midnight on Monday By Aaron Bunch In Darwin For Australian Associated Press
Published: 07:19 GMT, 7 December 2021 | Updated: 07:19 GMT, 7 December 2021
Chief Minister Michael Gunner has warned Northern Territorians that Covid-19 cannot be defeated and they should prepare for life with the virus.
A revised suppression strategy will focus on how fast the disease is spreading and case numbers.
'We can't completely eliminate Covid from the community,' Mr Gunner told reporters on Tuesday.
'We are at a point where Covid-zero no longer exists as a strategy or as a reality. This is part of our new normal in the territory'.
Chief Minister Michael Gunner has ruled out a Covid zero strategy and says community must 'learn to live with Covid' (pictured, masked shoppers leave Darwin Coles in the Northern Territory)
Mr Gunner said virus elimination had never been the NT's goal 'but it was our reality for a long time'.
'As the past month has shown that is very difficult and probably impossible to achieve,' he said, referring to the current 61 case outbreak that spread from the town of Katherine to
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