Australia must eventually face reality: live with Covid or become a hermit nation | Peter Collignon

Once at least 70% of adults are vaccinated, we need to gradually open our borders and adopt a different attitude to what risks we are willing to accept

Covid-19 remains widespread globally and it is unlikely to ever be eradicated. Few countries have not had extensive community spread. Even countries with previous good control, such as Taiwan, South Korea, Japan and Vietnam, are seeing increasing numbers of cases.

We remain fortunate that in most of Australia we have not seen much community spread. By global standards, we still have only had a small proportion of our population infected.