Professor Peter Collignon, a top infectious diseases physician, said lockdowns have affected healthy lifestyle behaviours and led to an increase in obesity.
Covid restrictions are coming to an end for Australia s two biggest states signalling that the pandemic crisis, but virus experts warn we can t drop our guard .
A leading infectious diseases expert has urged the federal government to concentrate efforts on getting more older Australians to receive their COVID-19 booster.
Professor Peter Collignon said Covid case numbers in New Zealand and Hong Kong where Covid-zero policies where in place show that masks do little to reduce Omicron case numbers.
On Wednesday the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation gave final approval for the vaccine. Moderna was previously only been available to people 12 and over.