Covid-19: Australia drastically reduces arrivals of foreigners on its territory
A baggage check-in counter at Sydney Airport (illustrative image).
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After a week during which Australia was overtaken by the Delta variant, the government has just announced a pandemic exit plan, which provides in particular for a drastic reduction in arrivals from abroad.
While the city of Sydney is still subject to strict containment.
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With our correspondent in Sydney,
Grégory Plesse
To reduce the risk of contamination, Australia, whose borders have been closed for sixteen months now, has just chosen to cut itself off even more from the world.
From July 14, only 3,000 people per week will be authorized to enter the territory, and this for at least until the end of the year.
A containment strategy that is the first phase of a pandemic exit plan, presented Friday by Prime Minister
Scott Morrison
.
This plan provides for three other stages, which will result in a gradual easing of restrictions, until a return to normal and the total reopening of the borders. vaccination reaches a certain threshold.
The problem is that these thresholds have not yet been defined.
And that no dated goal has been set either.
A vagueness undoubtedly voluntary and which is explained by the
extreme slowness of the vaccination campaign
in Australia, where barely 7% of the population is to date fully vaccinated.
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