Australia Ending Its Insane ‘Covid Zero’ Policy
Singapore ditching the “Covid Zero” goal as well, while New Zealand bitterly clings to this elusive number.
Perhaps it was the moment the rescue dogs were shot.
Then again, perhaps it was the optics of using the military to lock down its citizens.
Or maybe officials are now more open to new scientific and historical information, such as the experiences during the global coronavirus pandemic of 1889.
But whatever the reasons are, Australians are being freed from the bondage of the nation’s current “Covid Zero” policy….slowly.
Australia is set to end its “covid zero” policy after Prime Minister Scott Morrison determined that the country’s approach is not “sustainable” in the face of the more infectious COVID-19 delta variant.
Australia has maintained a strict policy of restrictions and lockdowns to stamp out any outbreak, but the government over the weekend laid out a new plan that marks a sharp change in policy.
The government will drop most restrictions once 80% of adults are vaccinated, which the government believes could happen by the end of the year, The Economist reported. Any further action would occur only after hospitals reached a point at which they could no longer cope with new cases, but will otherwise handle what they can.
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