Australian Health Minister Greg Hunt
has refused to guarantee Australia’s borders will open even if the whole
country has been vaccinated against COVID-19.
The borders have been shut since March 2020 and will remain closed until
at least the middle of June.
Mr Hunt suggested at a news
conference in Canberra yesterday (Tuesday) the international border closures
could last much longer and stay in place even if the entire population had been
vaccinated against the coronavirus.
“Vaccination alone is no guarantee that you can open up,” Mr
Hunt said.
“If the whole country were vaccinated, you couldn’t just open the
borders.
“We still have to look at a series of different factors:
transmission, longevity [of vaccine protection] and the global impact - and
those are factors which the world is learning about,” he said………
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