Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has called for a “common sense” approach to measures against COVID-19, saying there was no need to mandate masks, police people with QR code tracing, or require PCR testing for interstate travel. In particular, Morrison suggested that Australia’s states and territories did not need to resort to imposing mandates for things that people could self-manage using “common sense.” “Our systems need to respond differently to the way they did in earlier phases of the pandemic, where, because the case numbers were so much less, you could have more of a direct government intervention and control of these responses,” Morrison told reporters in Canberra on Dec. 22. “Going forward with Omicron, there will need to be more of a role for individuals in self managing and self regulating their responses.” Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly said that while Omicron cases were growing, concerns of its deadliness had been …