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Shitij Kapur

Australia’s dilemma is getting out of the gilded cage

To reopen the international borders once the vaccine rollout is complete, the political narrative and public expectations about zero cases must change.

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Australia has done well in dealing with the pandemic.

If you look at cases, if you look at hospitalisations, if you look at deaths, it’s
somewhere along with New Zealand and Taiwan as one of the leading nations in its public health outcomes.

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Shitij Kapur is dean of the faculty of medicine, dentistry and health sciences at the University of Melbourne.

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