'It's in the national interest to ensure Victoria wins its COVID-19 battle': PM

Prime Minister Scott Morrison says the "Victorian wave" is having a significant impact on the Australian economy as he commended the Andrews government for its work to curb the spread of the virus sweeping through the state's aged care sector. "There's not a second wave that's going across the rest of the country, that is not occurring. There is a significant Victorian wave, but that Victorian wave is impacting the national economy more broadly," Mr Morrison said. "It's in the national interest, from a health perspective and economic perspective, that we ensure that Victoria wins here and we're all backing Victoria to win and we're all putting everything we can behind Victoria to ensure they can do that." Mr Morrison noted the principal cause for transmission into aged care facilities was through "workforce transmission". "It has principally come through the infection of staff, more broadly in the community, many cases completely unaware of that infection and by the time they became aware of that infection, then obviously they'd been in those facilities," he said. Image: News Corp Australia

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