'A wicked enemy': how Australia's coronavirus success story unravelled
by Josh Taylor in Melbourne from on (#563WP)
Weeks ago, Australia was the envy of the world. Now it has more than 3,000 active coronavirus cases and Melbourne is in lockdown. What went wrong?
Less than a month ago, Australia was the envy of much of the world. With daily new coronavirus cases in the single digits, it was feted as part of a group of first mover" nations - countries like Taiwan, Singapore and New Zealand that acted decisively to quash coronavirus.
In mid-June, after three months of tight restrictions and differing levels of lockdown, life was not quite back to normal, but as politicians liked to stress, it was almost Covid-normal.
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