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Victoria has now gone 24 days with no new cases of community transmission of the coronavirus.
Yesterday there were 0 locally acquired cases and 1 case in hotel quarantine reported. It has now been 24 days since the last locally acquired case. 13,702 test results were received – thank you for getting tested.
More later: https://t.co/2vKbgKHFvv#COVID19Vic #COVID19VicData pic.twitter.com/e9aoFtrWFm
There has been not shortage of criticism of the European Union’s decision to place export control on vaccine’s produced on the continent.
After the decision was announced overnight, the World Health Organisation labelled it part of a “very worrying trend” that could jeopardise the global supply chain for vaccines.
It is not helpful to have any country at this stage putting export bans or export barriers that will not allow for the free movement of the necessary ingredients that will make vaccines, diagnostics and other medicines available to all the world”.
The UK has legally-binding agreements with vaccine suppliers and it would not expect the EU, as a friend and ally, to do anything to disrupt the fulfilment of these contracts.”
