Scott Morrison and state and territory leaders are set to discuss vaccination targets to eliminate lockdowns and border restrictions. The prime minister will chair a virtual national cabinet meeting from Canberra on Friday. Mr Morrison has spent weeks arguing there is no magic number of vaccinations that will trigger Australia to reopen its international borders and ending domestic restrictions. But with more than 12 million people in lockdown across Australia, he now concedes it is time to set clear expectations around what percentage of the population needs to be vaccinated. “It’s time to start laying it out for the Australian public,” Morrison told The Australian. “It is imperative the premiers, chief ministers and I address that question. It comes down to the medical science and what are the magic numbers.” The prime minister said modelling had already been done on the Alpha variant and was almost complete on the more …
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