Original article by Melissa Davey
The Guardian Australia – Page: Online : 17-Jun-22

Professor Margaret Hellard from the Burnet Institute has called for the reintroduction of a face mask mandate to help curb the spread of COVID-19. She has told a parliamentary inquiry into Victoria’s pandemic orders that Australia faces a COVID-19 death toll of 10,000 to 15,000 unless some measures are reinstated. Professor Jodie McVernon from the Doherty Institute in turn said that future COVID-19 measures need to be "reasonable and proportionate", and warned that without vaccines the nation’s death toll from the coronavirus would have been "catastrophic". NSW reported 9,117 new COVID-19 cases and 17 deaths on Wednesday; there were 7,889 new infections and 22 deaths in Victoria.

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