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Experts warn Australia at risk of third COVID wave without widespread vaccination – Sydney Morning Herald

Following calls to hasten the reopening of the nation’s borders, experts warn it won’t be safe to remove restrictions until at least 70 per cent of the population…

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We have incredibly low rates of infection in Australia, but without very high vaccine uptake rates, were never going to achieve any long-lasting protection, and well just keep doing the same thing over and over again.
There are now growing calls for a cautious easing of border restrictions, with many of Australias leading infectious diseases figures suggesting a new, risk-based quarantine system would allow select groups to safely avoid 14-day mandatory quarantine in a hotel.
Professor Sharon Lewin,…

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