The few arrivals are subject to a 14-day quarantine. The border remains closed today, with permits required to come to Australia (issued in limited numbers and limited circumstances) and to leave it. It helps, of course, to be an island nation that had closed its international borders at the start of the pandemic. It stands at just over 36 people per million of population, versus 1,853 for the United States. At just under 1,000 deaths, Australia has had the second-lowest mortality among the OECD countries (after New Zealand).
Australia has been the victim of both its success and its failure in tackling Covid. Has Covid-19 really turned one of the world’s oldest democracies into a dystopian health dictatorship? As my Polish grandmother used to say, things are rarely as good or as bad as they appear.įirst, some background to the current crisis. “If we invade Australia we will be greeted as liberators,” argues Jack Posobiec. “Australia has lost its collective mind,” according to Ben Shapiro. What the hell is happening Down Under? “Totalitarianism,” says Tucker Carlson. Health bureaucrats advising the citizenry not to stop and talk to their neighbors while walking their dog. Soldiers patrolling suburbs to enforce lockdowns. Nighttime curfews and one hour of exercise per day. Rescue dogs being shot to prevent volunteers travelling to collect them. Ten people are allowed at funerals and five people at weddings, for compassionate reasons such as end-of-life.Riot police firing rubber bullets into lockdown protesters.
Visitors to the home are only permitted for essential services, critical maintenance, caregiving, compassionate grounds, and in an emergency. Masks are mandatory indoors, in outdoor spaces (except for vigorous exercise), and on public transport. Residents can only leave their homes for six valid reasons: for work, it is not reasonably practicable to work from home shopping for essentials like groceries and medicine attending to medical or health care needs including emergencies exercising with a maximum of two adults from the same household (children under 18 years are not counted), limited to one hour per day within a 5km radius from home, and masks must be worn, except for vigorous exercise to receive a COVID-19 vaccine and emergencies such as a domestic violence situation. Perth and Peel region are under stay-at-home orders until 12.01am on Saturday, July 3. Meanwhile, the lockdown for Darwin, Palmerston and Litchfield council areas, and Wagait and Belyuen Shires, has been extended for a further 72 hours, until 1pm on Friday. Greater Sydney, including the Blue Mountains, Central Coast, Wollongong and Shellharbour are currently subject to a two-week lockdown following an outbreak that now stands at 149. Ms Palaszczuk's announcement came just hours after her Western Australia counterpart Mark McGowan placed Perth and the Peel region into a four-day lockdown after three local cases were reported in his state. Genome testing has since confirmed the teenager has the highly transmissible Delta variant and was infectious in the community for 10 days. Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk plunged South East Queensland, Townsville, Palm Island and Magnetic Island into a three-day lockdown from 6pm on Tuesday after an unvaccinated 19-year-old who works at the Prince Charles Hospital in Brisbane tested positive to COVID-19. New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory have all imposed lockdowns after reporting locally acquired cases of COVID-19.
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