Covid Australia live news update: NSW reports 163 new coronavirus cases and Victoria 12

I can’t confirm that because I don’t know that. I’ve seen nothing in writing, if that has happened. One of the frustrations, I must say, that I’ve had – look, I’m just being open and honest here because there is no other alternative at this point. Last year I was frustrated and I think a number of other health ministers were frustrated because we never got to find out what was in the national stockpile of PPE, personal protective equipment, so we went about making sure in New South Wales our staff were protected.

I think we had one warehouse of personal protective equipment at the beginning of the year and we now have 10. If we can do the same and get vaccine from some other source, we would, but unfortunately the world is not that simple. I have no idea how much, if any, are in our national stockpile. I simply don’t know that. I would like to know.