‘How long can Australia go on like this?’: what world thought of ‘feeble’ Covid vaccine rollout

Once heralded a global Covid success story, Australia's vaccine rollout has attracted little other than global criticism

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In the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic, Australia was lauded by news outlets around the world as a model of how to handle the virus. The country recorded few cases and when there were outbreaks, authorities brought them under control.

A year later, Australia's management of the pandemic is hitting the headlines for all the wrong reasons.