Australia will welcome international tourists from today after nearly two years of border closures, relying on high Covid-19 vaccination rates to live with the pandemic as infections tumble.
“The wait is over,” Prime Minister Scott Morrison said at a briefing at Melbourne International Airport.
Opening Australia to tourists is the clearest example yet of the government’s shift from a strict zero-Covid approach to living with the virus and vaccinating the public to minimize deaths and serious illness.
Most of the country’s 2.7 million coronavirus infections have occurred since the Omicron variant emerged in late November.
However, Australia’s PR took a battering over the whole Novak Djokovic debacle. Along with that, people must be vaccinated in order to gain entry into the country.
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