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.@leighsales: Is it still accurate that Australia's goal is flattening the curve, not total elimination, & not herd immunity? @ScottMorrisonMP: That's exactly right. It's called the suppression strategy. That was the advice from the medical expert panel again today. #abc730
“It's quite possible that by pursuing the suppression strategy, you actually get eradication as a by-product.” – Prime Minister @ScottMorrisonMP #abc730 #auspol #coronavirusaustralia
“First of all, we need to have an even broader testing program or surveillance testing network, which means what we can get on top and identify any outbreaks early.” – Prime Minister @ScottMorrisonMP #abc730 #auspol #coronavirusaustralia
“Secondly, we need to be able to have an industrial level type tracing capability of cases. The manual arrangements put in place by the states have been magnificent. But to ensure we can lift our level of activity, we need an even better system of tracing.” – @ScottMorrisonMP
“And thirdly, we need the capacity to respond to outbreaks where they occur very effectively. And we're seeing a form of that in northwest Tasmania right now.” – Prime Minister @ScottMorrisonMP #abc730 #auspol #coronavirusaustralia
“So if we can get those three things in place at a stronger level over the next four weeks, then we believe we'd be in a position to reduce the baseline level of restrictions that we currently have.” – Prime Minister @ScottMorrisonMP #abc730 #auspol #coronavirusaustralia
“Testing, tracing and response, they are the three critical weapons we need to combat the virus and at the same time be able to lift your level of economic activity.” – Prime Minister @ScottMorrisonMP #abc730 #auspol #coronavirusaustralia
"We'll be asking people to download an app, which helps us trace the virus quickly. And the more people who do that, the more we can get back to a more liveable set of arrangements.” – @ScottMorrisonMP
“The way out of this is to get on top of the virus and to get people back into working, in their incomes. When we do that we're winning.” – Prime Minister @ScottMorrisonMP #abc730 #auspol #coronavirusaustralia
“If you live in Victoria, listen to the Victorian Premier. If you live in NSW, listen to the NSW Premier. They'll have slightly different arrangements, but they're all working to the same goal.” – Prime Minister @ScottMorrisonMP on schools. #abc730 #auspol #coronavirusaustralia
“Look at New York, look at London, look at Spain. That could be Australia. We should not kid ourselves that the success we've had at the moment protects us from ending up where they are. If you don't keep it under control, it'll get away from you quickly.” – @ScottMorrisonMP
“I've found during the course of this that I get lots of health advice from business people and lots of business advice from doctors.” – Prime Minister @ScottMorrisonMP. #abc730 #auspol #coronavirusaustralia
“What I tend to do is focus on the health advice from those who are expert there and on the business advice, I've been listening very carefully to both the economists and business leaders.” – Prime Minister @ScottMorrisonMP. #abc730 #auspol #coronavirusaustralia

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