Slowdown in New Covid-19 Cases Offers Australia Hope that Second Wave has Peaked

The government last week pledged to expand its wage subsidy scheme by $12 billion amid the Victorian outbreak, prompting some criticism that the economic toll was too high.

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But Scott Morrison said the alternative was unthinkable.

"There have been some suggestions, I’ve read it ... that somehow our elderly should in some way have been offered up in relation to this virus," Scott Morrison told reporters in Canberra.

"That is a just hideous thought. An absolutely amoral, hideous thought. One that I’ve had no countenance with when it’s been suggested."

(Writer: Colin Packham | Editors: Jane Wardell, Stephen Coates)

Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-australia/australia-says-covid-19-outbreak-shows-signs-of-peaking-idUSKCN25510C