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It's time to ease the shutdown strategy

The infection curve is flattening out much faster than anyone hoped. An easing of the lockdown policy may be warranted soon.

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Australia is undershooting a range of expert predictions for the spread of the coronavirus by a wide and growing margin.

Predictions from both bureaucrats and academics indicated that 20 per cent to 60 per cent of the Australian population could be infected with the coronavirus, which would translate to between 5 million and 15 million Australians.

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Andrew Mohl was a senior economist at the RBA and group chief economist at ANZ Bank, before becoming CEO of AMP and an independent non-executive director of Commonwealth Bank.

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