ANALYSIS: There's a growing pressure to ease restrictions — and Australia has two options
The clear international consensus is that lockdowns cannot be contingent on a vaccine eventually being found.
This leaves Australia with a couple of options: try to eliminate the virus completely and then remain closed off from the world indefinitely or learn to live with it and manage the caseload as much as possible."Because the normal [funeral] rituals are not possible at the moment, it is very important for us — and our mental health — to create new ones."
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