Australia's coronavirus restrictions to stay for at least four more weeks, Scott Morrison says

Prime Minister Scott Morrison says coronavirus restrictions will remain in place for at least four more weeks and will not be lifted until Australia enhances its testing, tracing and local outbreak response capacities.

Scott Morrison talks to reporters. Source: ABC Australia

Prime Minister Scott Morrison says there are no plans to ease coronavirus restrictions for at least four weeks.

Mr Morrison said three main requirements would need to be met before rules could be changed: more testing, better contact tracing and quicker local reactions to outbreaks.

"We want to be very clear with Australians, the baseline restrictions we have in place at the moment, there are no plans to change those for the next four weeks," Mr Morrison said on Thursday afternoon.

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