Australia is not ‘in a hurry’ to open borders

(CNN) – Australia is ‘in a hurry’ to open its international borders and risk the country’s success with the coronavirus pandemic, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Sunday.

According to Johns Hopkins University, one of the countries that fared better in the pandemic is with less than 30,000 reported cases and 910 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.

Rapid border closures and restrictions due to sporadic regional increases in cases have so far reduced the numbers.

“Australia is not in a hurry to open those borders, I can assure you,” Morrison told Reuters in a television briefing.

“I will not endanger the way we live in this country that is so different from the rest of the world today.”

However, there is hope that visitors can be allowed to walk in by 2021. On Friday, Morrison suggested that vaccinated Australians could fly in and out of the country, as the priority.

But he said that even a partial border opening had been gone for some time, and that it would not be considered until the defenseless had been vaccinated. Reducing the restrictions could result in 1,000 cases a week, he added.

Australia’s borders were closed with citizens and returning permanent residents, their immediate family and travelers with the release the only people allowed into the country.

From 19 April, a complete travel bubble will start with New Zealand, with the whole country as a green zone. However, it is not for an indefinite period of time – regional outbreaks can limit the bubble.

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