Australia’s Last Covid-Zero State Scraps Plan to Finally Reopen
- Delay announced over fears of unsustainable omicron outbreak
- Western Australia is the country’s last Covid-zero holdout
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Australia’s last and most fervent defender of Covid-zero isn’t quite ready to live with the virus.
Business leaders and shut-out families have voiced frustration at a last-minute decision by Western Australia to delay a planned reopening indefinitely, pausing the country’s shift to fully reopen. While the rest of the nation has moved to live with the disease in recent months, the state held off amid concern about low vaccination rates.