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NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard has refused to publicly release documents detailing the COVID-19 advice chief health officer Dr Kerry Chant provided about locking down Greater Sydney.

Key points:
  • Kerry Chant said authorities didn't know the true extent of the West Hoxton "super spreader" event until it was too late
  • She said the decision to allow most Year 12 students back this month balanced public health and mental health
  • Brad Hazzard criticised the parliamentary committee for asking pointed questions just to "have a go"

During a parliamentary inquiry today a fiery Mr Hazzard butted heads with committee members as he and Dr Chant were questioned over the management of the state's growing COVID-19 outbreak.

The committee, made up of Opposition and Greens MPs, asked Dr Chant to provide the precise date she first gave Mr Hazzard advice about locking down Greater Sydney.

Dr Chant said the formal advice to lock down the region was provided in writing to the NSW crisis cabinet on June 25, the same day stay-at-home orders were announced.

But when asked to publicly provide the documents the Health Minister strongly shut down the request.

 

"I'll answer that because obviously those issues go to crisis cabinet, which is a subcommittee of cabinet. But Dr Chant is under oath, and she's giving you the evidence, which is quite clear, so she won't be providing any documents," Mr Hazzard said.

On June 25, Premier Gladys Berejiklian announced a two-week lockdown of Greater Sydney, the Blue Mountains, the Central Coast and Wollongong.

Dr Chant conceded a party at West Hoxton in Western Sydney — described by the Premier as a "super spreader" event — was the catalyst for the decision.

 

READ MORE:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-10/brad-hazzard-refuses-to-make-covid-health-advice-public/100365386

 

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NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has again shrugged off the idea of introducing even tougher measures to curb her state’s growing virus crisis.

On Tuesday, NSW had its worst day yet with a record 356 local COVID cases and a further four deaths confirmed.

The death toll from the current outbreak is now 32. There are 60 COVID-19 patients in intensive care, with 28 ventilated.

 

Tuesday’s fatalities included the death of a man in his 80s linked to the outbreak at Liverpool Hospital, as well as a woman in her 80s and a man in his 70s. A man in his 80s who caught the virus overseas also died.

But despite the steady rise in the number of local COVID infections, Ms Berejiklian insisted she won’t introduce harsher lockdown measures unless they have a proven impact on virus transmission.

She again rejected the idea of a so-called ‘ring of steel’ around Canterbury-Bankstown or introducing a curfew.

“Delta is different, we need to treat it differently, and NSW doesn’t have any intention of putting in strategies that aren’t going to work,” Ms Berejiklian said.

“If we thought they’d have a significant or even marginal impact, of course we’d do those things, but there is no evidence to suggest that.”

Instead, she said the Delta strain was just more difficult to contain and put the focus on residents who ignored existing rules.

“We have to accept that part of the challenge we have in NSW is because of lack of compliance and part of the challenge is because Delta is very different to anything we have seen before,” she said.

 

“Policy positions that may have worked in the past aren’t going to have effect with Delta, it’s something we need to accept.”

Ms Berejiklian said the rules did not need to change – people just needed to follow them.

“There are still pockets of people who think this isn’t a serious illness … who don’t believe the need to follow health orders and that impacts everybody but moreover than anything else,” she said.

 

Read more:

https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/2021/08/10/delta-different-gladys-berejiklian/

 

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