Pledging that he will not risk Australian lives, Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Tuesday said the strict measures adopted by his government have avoided 30,000 deaths in the country due to the “raging” COVID-19 pandemic in developing countries. Addressing a press conference in Queensland, Morrison termed the emergence of new virus strains was a “great risk”.
He said all the vaccines being administered across the world may not be equipped to deal with the new virus variants. However, he assured that his government was taking decisions based on the best medical advice available currently. “The pandemic is raging. The pandemic is morphing. It’s changing everyday. When you see the pandemic this year raging through developing countries, then the great risk, as we’re already seeing, is new strains, new variants coming through,” he said.
“I’m not going to take risks with Australian lives. I’m not going to do that and I’m going to ensure that we maintain a regime that has…