Australia news live: Sydney braces for more Covid cases amid new mask rules for schools

What we have achieved up to both a national approach and appropriate state responses, has been arguably one of the outstanding results in the world*.

It is never easy and we trust NSW**. We trust the way they have managed of issues, and what I would say is we are very confident that the common nation of measures there, borders, testing, tracing, distancing, vaccination, all of these things will work in the law Australians that are vaccinated, over 8.5 million people, and those numbers are increasing significantly.

Again, as I say, it was a record yesterday and I am increasingly confident about bringing forward more vaccines in August. These things are all working, so challenges, but can we do as a nation, absolutely and we will do it as a nation. I believe we will.

source: theguardian.com