Australia live news updates: Novak Djokovic case before court; Victoria reports 23 Covid deaths, NSW 20 and Qld six

I particularly want to acknowledge the work of our pathologists and our healthcare workers. Our pathologists have been working for two years literally around the clock, our general healthcare sector, GPs, our pharmacists, and all of those nurses, doctors, carers, cleaners right across the system. Everybody involved, they kept Australia safe and there are real signs of hope today. We have cross the 95% threshold for 16 plus vaccinations.

We have had over 1 million doses delivered in a three day period. The highest not just through the pandemic but on record in Australian history. And as Prof Kelly has said, there are very clear signs of stabilisation and operating within the system capacity in our hospitals. And so it’s challenging times but what we know is that it’s challenging times for the whole world with over 4 million cases a day and Australians are rising to the occasion and I want to thank everybody, take care, we will continue to encourage people to be vaccinated but they are doing an incredible job. Thanks very much. We will get through this. We have done it before. We will do it again.

source: theguardian.com