The AFR View
SA must hold its nerve on the border
With a double-jabbed rate of 82 per cent in South Australia, there is no evidence so far to justify an overreaction to the emergence of the more infectious omicron variant.
Australia’s hopes for a more normal Christmas require South Australian Premier Steven Marshall to hold his nerve on keeping the state borders open, and not encourage other COVID-free states, especially Queensland, to backtrack on their reopening plans.
Learning to live with COVID-19 was always going to be a challenge for the first zero-infection state that opened up its borders to those parts of Australia where the virus is freely circulating.
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