Like to travel? You’ll hate this professor’s biggest lesson from the pandemic

Nobel laureate Peter Doherty says the halting of international flights should happen sooner and be applied more broadly during the next pandemic.

Tom BurtonGovernment editor

Mar 2, 2022 – 12.29pm

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International flights should be immediately halted in regions where a respiratory virus such as COVID-19 is detected, Nobel laureate Peter Doherty has told an infectious diseases conference considering lessons from the pandemic.

Several speakers warned that the pandemic would not end until the whole world is vaccinated, with the Doherty Institute’s director of modelling Jodie McVernon declaring Australia needs to reset its thinking to a country where COVID-19 is prevalent.

Tom Burton was government editor at The Australian Financial Review.