The Project host Lisa Wilkinson has publicly blasted Gladys Berejiklian over her handling of the Covid crisis, making a direct on-air plea to the NSW Premier.
last night came hours after Berejiklian called Saturday’s record high of 466 new Covid cases a “wake-up call” during her Sunday press conference.
That comment – several months into NSW’s current outbreak of the Delta variant, with steadily rising cases – had Sydney-based Wilkinson seeing red. “When you consider on June 24, there was 36 cases with 11 new ones that we’d been alerted to … And, please, Premier, can youWilkinson’s co-host Peter van Onselen agreed, also criticising Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s Sunday morning announcement that 1 million extra Pfizer vaccines would soon be arriving from Poland, with many sent straight to south-western Sydney, the heart of NSW’s current outbreak.
“He could’ve done that with vaccines from other states, and topped those states up with what’s coming from Poland. They’re never ahead of this; they’re always behind.”Wilkinson has been an outspoken critic of the government’s handling of the Covid pandemic and vaccine rollout, tweeting over the weekend that the country’s current sweeping lockdowns had come “courtesy of Scott Morrison’s handling of the pandemic.
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