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Australia’s Covid Success Has Bred Complacency
After effectively stamping out the virus earlier this year, compliance has grown lax and infections are spreading.
What virus?
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Compared with the rest of the world, Australia’s latest bout of coronavirus might seem to barely register.
The cluster of 83 infections connected to the affluent beachside suburb of Avalon in northern Sydney is equivalent to the number of new cases registered in the U.S. every 30 seconds or so. Still, with much of the country now closing its borders to people from Sydney, the circumstances offer a warning to other regions when they start to emerge from the pandemic’s shadow.