Mr. Paul Reid:

I will add a couple of things because it is important that we continuously reassure the public and build their confidence at every opportunity. I will stand back from it all and give the Senator some facts. Transmission, mortality, sickness and hospitalisation levels are down. The numbers in intensive care units, ICUs, are, thankfully, down. We know that those reductions are also a function of what is happening in the community. Hospital-acquired infections are significantly down. Serial testing in nursing homes show an infection rate that is now down to 0.2%. That is a function of both reduced community transmission and the vaccination programme. The percentage of cases of Covid in healthcare workers in the first week of this year was at 16%. That figure is now down to approximately 4%. There were more than 3,600 Covid cases among healthcare workers in the first week of the year and that is significantly down to approximately 300 cases or fewer. Those are positive impacts of the approach we are taking.