Vaccinated residents would be exempt from all domestic restrictions and there would only be baseline restrictions and highly targeted lockdowns under the third stage of the plan. Health Minister Greg Hunt hailed the milestone of 70 percent full vaccination of eligible people. The 80 per cent threshold in Australia will trigger the third stage of the national plan.
The country is expected to eclipse the 80 per cent double dose milestone, which was a key threshold in the national plan, in less than 10 days. “They may not require hospitalisation, and so the balance will shift from hospitalisation to community care.”