The federal government hopes to have supply to offer every Australian at least one dose of vaccine by year’s end, and forecasted supplies mean it could be even earlier. NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian, currently battling an outbreak in Sydney, has suggested 80 per cent of her state must be vaccinated before she would scrap travel rules for good.
The UK is proving the exact opposite of that.” What will it take for nationwide change? “It would be a mistake to think that if you get high rates of vaccination that you won’t get cases. They have a vaccination rate of 81 per cent on their first dose,” Mr Morrison said on Thursday. “In the UK, 12,000 cases a day, had 27 deaths yesterday.
However, even vaccinated people can still contract and spread COVID. The current crop of vaccines – whether AstraZeneca, Pfizer, Moderna or otherwise – are “beyond our wildest dreams”, Professor Crabb said, in reducing hospitalisations, illness and death. Hong Kong is reducing quarantine for vaccinated arrivals from 14 days to seven.īut, as Prime Minister Scott Morrison noted, such nations are still battling COVID infections. Through Europe, people are taking summer holidays overseas. In New York and California, a mark of 70 per cent of people getting a first vaccine dose was the green light for essentially all COVID restrictions to be lifted last week. Photo: AAPīut in countries like the United States, United Kingdom and throughout Europe, far higher vaccination rates have given those citizens far more freedoms to travel, gather in crowds and not worry about small outbreaks. Lockdowns will remain in force for some time to come. State borders are slammed shut over a handful of cases, and there is no firm timeline on when Australians could expect to be allowed to travel overseas again. (Two doses for the entire adult population would be 40 million.) “It probably needs a high proportion of people having two doses, and potentially a booster (before we see anything change).” Vaccinations see overseas countries open upĪustralia has administered just shy of 7 million vaccine doses as of Thursday. “We’re in that state for six to nine months,” predicted Professor Brendan Crabb, microbiologist and director of the Burnet Institute. For all other information on COVID-19, please refer to the official South Australian health body, SA Health.Don’t expect that to change any time soon, experts say. We wash our hands regularly and expect you to use the hand sanitizer provided at the front of all shops, restaurants, bars and hotelsįor information on hand hygiene, click here.Naturally case numbers began to rise in early 2022 and we adjusted our way of life accordingly, but in reality it was meeting the "new normal" that many people globally have come to expect. Once the majority of our population was vaccinated, we opened our borders to the rest of Australia - allowing COVID-19 into the community. South Australia remained essentially COVID-19 free, or what we call "COVID zero" until late 2021. Case numbers remain relatively low compared to other major cities in Australia and overseas, and as such we have been able to maintain a great quality of life.
South Australia is a very safe place to travel to, with over 90% of people aged 12 years and over double vaccinated against COVID-19. Life in South Australia may look a little different from when you last visited us, or if you haven't visited us, a little different to your home country.
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