After a rollercoaster 2020, Australia’s economy is showing signs of recovery

The rollercoaster of 2020 saw South Australians this week go through the harshest and, as it happens, briefest COVID lockdown yet.

The details are hard to keep up with, but in the space of a few days, authorities believed they had struck a new strain of the virus, spreading so fast even pizza deliveries were a risk. The entire state was shut down. Even a jog around the block was banned.

Two days later, it emerged someone had lied to contact tracers. The virus wasn’t being transmitted through pizza deliveries after all, and restrictions were unwound.

The whole episode was a reminder of the uncertainty that still exists around how this virus behaves,…