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Australians face worse fresh food shortages unless Covid isolation rules ease, industry warns
‘Significant risk’ to supply of fruit and vegetables to supermarkets as industry calls for seven-day isolation requirement to be scrapped
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Australians may be unable to buy fresh produce at supermarkets while fruit and vegetables are left to rot on farms unless staff shortages caused by the coronavirus pandemic are fixed, the industry’s peak body has warned.
Michael Rogers, the chief executive of the Australian Fresh Produce Alliance, said there was a “significant risk” of such a situation.
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