Australia will become a "hermit nation" unless it accepts the additional COVID-19 risks with setting up travel bubbles with Singapore, South Korea, Japan and New Zealand, a leading infectious disease experts warns.
"We can’t be a hermit nation for two, three, four or five years but whatever we do, we have to keep risks to a minimum," he said.was unlikely in 2021 in the absence of a vaccine. However, Prime Minister Scott Morrison acknowledged talks to open up travel were taking place with other low-risk nations in the Asia-Pacific, starting with New Zealand.
"At the moment those countries have low levels of community transmission. What that means for quarantining, maybe you do it home?" he said. People wearing face masks pack in a shopping arcade of Asakusa district in Tokyo Sunday, Sept. 20, 2020.New South Wales, the ACT and the Northern Territory will re-open their borders to New Zealanders on Friday, October 16.
In a statement, a spokesman for the Japanese embassy thanked Morrison for flagging Japan for inclusion in future travel bubble arrangements and said the country had begun to allow business travellers to come to Japan, though with a 14-day quarantine period. Japan has detected 89,652 cases of coronavirus and reported 278 new cases on Monday. It's seven-day average case count is about 500 cases.
Just leaving this here, for people not full of brain worms. Dr Collignon is about as must of an expert on infectious diseases as you can possibly be. Those questioning his qualifications are ridiculously wrong.
You mean like North Korea or more like a rich exclusive island resort a million miles from sophisticated civilization! The panpanic is a population growth killing Godsend. Long may it last. As soon we bubble, we'll Covid all over again. We should hermit for 5 glorious years.
No commies though amirite?
Focus on helping Aussies home first
Meh, in 1 year this will all be over and we'll be rebuilding what this pandemic has destroyed remembering those that died. We just gotta be patient, let the world's brightest do their research and follow their advice.
Agree, I reckon Victoria (including Melb), NSW ACT & NT will be moving in that direction before the other states.
What an absolute load of cobblers. The Age has daily stuck the knife in Dan Andrews in particular, but also undermined the Covid19 Health message at every given opportunity. Readers leaving in droves but still you persist with this rubbish. ThisisNotJournalism
No thank you , prefer to get our Country under control. Australia First ! Greed Second ! Tourism should not be our number source of income. Government should assist let us once again become a manufacturing nation.
And how many other ‘infection specialists’ agree with him?
Bullshit! The last thing we need is more Coronavirus cases coming from outside when we clearly can’t manage the ones we already have
Correct - just look at WEstern Australia . Hard border is like Nth Korea & South Korea DMZ !!! This is not working socially !!!! Need an open Australia with planes flying
Great the New Zealanders get to travel to some states of Australia before even Victorians can... last time I checked VIC was still part of Australia. Open all the damn borders up !!!
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