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Allied health workers Covid Jab Mandat for review



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The emergency management board of South Australia will meet this morning to discuss the opportunity to end the COVVI-19 vaccination mandates for Allied health workers, while the government is preparing to launch an examination of State emergency management laws.
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Prime Minister Peter Malinauskas at the Emergency Management Board meeting earlier this year. Photo: Tony Lewis/Indaily

The council is expected to meet this morning to discuss whether to lift the mandate which only allows employees who are vaccinated three times from working in the Allied health care environment.

Similar mandate has been removed in other sectors, such as education and police, but despite concerns about lack of workers, allied health care workers who are not vaccinated are still prohibited from their workplace.

Allied health care workers include professionals such as podiatric experts, chiropractors, occupational therapists and physiotherapists.

The Emergency Management Council is also expected to run through how South Australia tracks the handling of Pandemi Covid-19, after the country reported five cases of Covid S and 2141 new.

The fifth S, including a woman in her 80s, a woman in her 90s, two men in her 70s and a 80s man.

The latest figure from SA Health shows that below 94 percent of southern Australians who meet the requirements over 12 years have received two Covid-19 vaccine doses, while 72.9 percent is vaccinated by triple.

Today's meeting came after Prime Minister Peter Malinauskas told the parliamentary estimated committee session on Monday afternoon that he hoped to receive immediate advice on how the government could review the State Emergency Management Law.

The lawyer has long called for an emergency management law, which was used to place southern Australia under the two-year main emergency declaration during the peak of Pandemi Covid-19.

The declaration, which ended in April, handed over the Police Commissioner Grant Stevens in its role as the Emergency Coordinator of the State sweeping power to impose restrictions on business and community life.

Changes to the public health law that passed the parliament in April allowed the government to end the emergency management declaration while maintaining existing restrictions such as the mandate of health care workers vaccination.

SA Law Society had previously warned that the Emergency Management Law was only intended to be used for short emergency situations such as natural disasters and terrorism incidents.

It is said that a review is needed to determine how it can be adapted for prolonged events such as pandemic.

Overview of the Emergency Management Act is registered as one of the Malinauskas government targets in the 2022-23 state budget which was revealed earlier this month.

Asked when the review will begin, what
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