Zero new virus cases across multiple states is looking increasingly likely, but it’s causing a headache amid fears a two-speed Australia could emerge.
But when was the last time you remember hearing about a new COVID-19 case in Canberra? If you can’t recall, that’s because it was an impressively long time ago.
“Some states will achieve elimination and that’s going to create some real tensions with those that don’t,” he said. But with NSW, and to a lesser degree Victoria, easing restrictions, despite new infections popping up, that would mean the elimination states potentially inviting in the infected. “Do they guard their elimination and open up the economy, workplaces, restaurants but keep their borders closed with other parts of Australia?
But Prof Blakely said if New Zealand achieved elimination, the nation might not want to open to NSW at all. Police continue to enforce the COVID-19 border restriction at Coolangatta on the Queensland to NSW border. Picture: Adam HeadIn the end, it might not be possible to cordon off separate states for that long. A plan B could even be for a grudging acceptance of some level of herd immunity to get the country moving again.
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