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Australian governments push for end to COVID restrictions as Sydney Delta outbreak grows
An outbreak of the highly-infectious Delta variant of COVID-19, which resulted in four states with a combined population of almost 12 million being under limited lockdown measures last week, has continued to spread in Sydney.
Despite dozens of new cases each day in Australia’s most populous city, the New South Wales (NSW) Liberal-National Coalition government, backed by its federal and state Coalition and Labor Party counterparts, is preparing to lift the inadequate restrictions currently in place.
Over the last several days, the NSW government has carried out an increasingly brazen campaign aimed at justifying the scheduled end of “stay-at-home” orders at midnight on Friday.
Experts reveal how COVID vaccine could free us Will the COVID-19 vaccine spell an end to lockdowns and put travel back on the cards? Four top epidemiologists share their opinions.
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Subscriber only Start packing your bags. Experts say the COVID-19 vaccine rollout should allow people to travel freely around Australia without having to worry about border closures. And it means international travel is back on the cards in the not too distant future. But will it spell an end to lockdowns? Four leading epidemiologists - former World Health Organisation epidemiologist and University of South Australia Professor Adrian Esterman, Deakin University Chair of Epidemiology Professor Catherine Bennett, Australian National University Professor Peter Collignon and Melbourne University epidemiologist Professor Tony Blakely - share their views.
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