Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced, following the national cabinet meeting, that close contact isolation rules changes will be expanded to help ease supply chain issues and keep the economy running. The earlier changes that allowed food and grocery workers identified as close contacts to return to work with a negative test result for COVID-19 has been expanded to all freight, transport, and logistics employees, including workers, are service stations. It has also been extended to healthcare and support, emergency services, water and waste management, education and childcare, and other critical goods suppliers. “The goal is not to stop everyone in the country from getting COVID. The goal was to protect our hospitals and keep our society and economy functioning as we ride this latest wave of Omicron,” Morrison told reporters, emphasising that it was unrealistic for governments across the country to prevent everyone from being infected with the CCP …