Serbia’s leaders say tennis world No 1 has been ‘harassed … but not humiliated’ after he ended his legal fight to play in the Australian Open. Follow all the day’s news
- Serbia’s leaders hit out at ‘scandalous’ treatment of Novak Djokovic
- 100 doctors locked out of WA weeks before state reopens
- ‘Like a lockdown’: Australians feel the fear and anxiety of Covid
- Comment: Imagine if Australia applied its new no-dickhead policy on Djokovic to government troublemakers
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Hunt says “you always keep adapting” to new variants, and hopes NSW and the ACT’s peaks are plateauing:
The frequent but not inevitable course of a virus is they become more infectious but less severe, and that’s clearly what’s happened with the Omicron variant…but it’s not a given, it’s a general course with many major viruses and this is how pandemics burn themselves out over time…but we’ll move on all the advice we have on having a pandemic to an endemic, where it becomes less severe…like the flu has.