This week, I sent my daughter a note reporting 4,000 new cases in B.C. over the Easter weekend. The response from Down Under: “Zero here.”
The lockdown ended, her mother-in-law is visiting and they’re off on a wine tour in the nearby Hunter Valley; all bittersweet for my other daughter, who has not had anyone outside immediate family in her Ontario home for a year.
Granted, Australia does not share a lengthy and porous international border as we do.
Still, goods and people do enter the country and anyone arriving from abroad automatically spends two weeks in a quarantine hotel.