Some of Australia’s coronavirus restrictions will be lifted earlier than expected with state and federal leaders set to make an announcement next Friday.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said national cabinet would ease restrictions after next week’s meeting, bringing forward the decision from May 11.
“Australians have earned an early mark through the work they have done,” he said in Canberra on Friday.
“We can’t keep Australia under the Doona.”
National cabinet will meet twice next week ahead of that announcement.
Modelling, extended testing, contact tracing, the health system’s preparation and workplace training were all important in helping to determine what restrictions would ease and when, Mr Morrison said.
He also again urged Australians to sign up for the COVIDSafe tracking app, saying 3.5 million had downloaded it by Friday afternoon.
“Those measures gave us a pretty good tick today,” he said.
“We need our app uptake to be higher before we can say that the final piece of the jigsaw puzzle of contract tracing can be there.”
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