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Scott Morrison will ask the states to allow children to drive forklifts at today’s national cabinet meeting as part of measures to ease the staff shortages crippling supply chains, Guardian Australia has learned.
As anyone who’s ever worked in a factory or warehouse knows, forklifts are a very dangerous piece of machinery – a person was killed in a forklift accident in Victoria on Tuesday.
There are changes that we need to make around the age of forklift drivers, to get quite specific.
Either medicine should be administered as soon as possible after diagnosis of Covid-19 and within 5 days of the start of symptoms.
Lagevrio is available as capsules, while Paxlovid comprise separate tablets of nirmatrelvir and ritonavir. In both cases, the medicines are taken twice a day for 5 days.
Read the original article at The Guardian