How did Australia lose its grip on covid-19 and can it get it back?

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Empty streets in Melbourne, Australia, the set lockdown rules are in plot to restrict the spread of coronavirus

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Australia was tantalisingly shut to removal the coronavirus, but is now seeing a surge in new cases. What went injurious and can it regain management?

The nation was in the starting up in a plot to possess covid-19 by closing its border to non-nationals, quarantining voters getting back from out of the country, implementing defend-at-house orders at some level of the nation, and conducting frequent making an strive out and state to tracing. This brought the series of new confirmed cases down from 460 on 28 March to between two and 17 per day in …

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