Dozens of wealthy nations around the world are opening their economies and borders while Australians remain trapped in the country and locked in their homes, with leaders reluctant to even talk about the roadmap to freedom after Covid-19.
Americans, Britons and Europeans - who have endured 15 months of restrictions and lost relatives and friends to coronavirus - are now finally enjoying concerts, summer holidays and sports matches after successful vaccine rollouts.
On Monday the UK - which has fully vaccinated half the population - recorded 22,868 cases of Covid-19 but only three deaths, showing that vaccinations are turning the virus into a manageable disease like flu, which killed 1,255 Australians in 2017.
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