Despite the blunders, in contrast to elsewhere around the world, Australia’s numbers are extremely low. And outside of Victoria and New South Wales, the country has remained largely untouchedjust 35 deaths from less than 3000 cases. “We are not running a blank cheque budget,” Morrison said. Australia’s lockdown mania has been so all-consuming that one assumes much of it would make Anthony Fauci blanch. At the time of writing, Australia has seen 28 000 cases in total and 908 deaths. This is on top of more than $4.4 billion allocated for vaccines purchases,” Morrison said in a speech in Canberra.Ĭlassifying the inoculation programme as his “first priority”, Morrison said the economy must now begin to wean itself off government spending.Īustralia has pledged more than A$250 billion in stimulus, which has already begun to taper.īut Morrison said there was a limit to the support government could afford. What worries me is that some countries will decide to do an Australia copycat strategy to eliminate the virus, and then find that no longer how long they lock. It will come into effect at 17:00 local time on Thursday (07. Australia’s approach so far has focused on social distancing and while this may bring down cases in the short-term, modelling shows a jump in infections after a few months when restrictions are. “The strategy is backed by an initial allocation of around A$1.9 billion in new support for the vaccine roll-out. The Australian capital Canberra is going into a snap one-week lockdown after recording its first case of Covid-19 in more than a year. Tests on the rest of the close contacts were expected to be completed on Monday, McGowan said.Īustralia has managed to largely contain its novel coronavirus epidemic - limiting cases to nearly 29,000 and deaths to 909 - with the sort of decisive action seen in Perth, and tight border controls.Ī vaccine campaign is due to begin this month, which Prime Minister Scott Morrison said would cost at least A$6.3 billion (RM19.5 billion).Īustralia had already pledged to spend A$4.4 billion to acquire enough doses for its 26 million population, but Morrison said his government had set aside a further A$1.9 billion to pay for the roll-out.
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