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Australians will have to take repeated rounds of Covid boosters, live under constantly changing restrictions, and wear masks for all of 2022.
That is the grim prediction of NSW chief health officer Kerry Chant for the year ahead even with vaccine rates topping 90 per cent.
Just as Australians entered the new year expecting life to be something resembling normal within months, Dr Chant has dashed their hopes.
'I think all of us would just like Covid to be gone... we would like to have one more round of vaccinations, and then have it as a done deal,' she said.
Australians will have to take repeated rounds of Covid boosters, live under constantly changing restrictions, and wear masks for all of 2022, Dr Kerry Chant (pictured) has warned
'For some diseases, we've been able to achieve that, but we won't be able to with the current vaccines available.
'So 2022 is going to be seeing waves of [Covid cases] going up and down and we're going to have to tailor a series of responses.'
That series of
