Catholic Health Australia, the peak advisory body for not-for-profit hospitals and aged care, has welcomed news the ACT Government will require most workers in its health care system to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
Travel is expected to resume between Canberra, NSW and Victoria before Christmas, but the ACT government isn't banking on other jurisdictions opening their borders.
Australia's research effort to find another treatment for COVID-19 has ramped up as the daily increase in the country's coronavirus cases surpassed 2000 for the first time during the pandemic.