pandemic, blaming the government for failing to adjust the hotel-quarantine system for returning residents, which has seen at least 20 leaks of the delta strain of coronavirus into local communities this year.
He also criticized Morrison for not signing sufficient contracts for vaccines with a wide enough range of suppliers. The government says its vaccine rollout is ramping up and all adults will be offered a jab this year.
Yet in the meantime, Australians remain vulnerable to snap lockdowns, with the nation’s two largest cities currently under stay-at-home orders.
While countries such as the U.S. and U.K. have largely opened up with more than half their populations fully vaccinated, just 17% of Australians have received two jabs, among