Australia on course to defeat COVID-19

[Suldaanka]

Australia on course to eliminate COVID-19, modelling shows

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Social distancing is keeping new infection levels low enough to eradicate the virus from mainland Australia, according to new federal government modelling.

 

[Suldaanka]

Australia has turned the corner for the better. The virus was mostly imported through Cruise ships and caused panic early to mid March. 

However, quick responses from both the Commonwealth and the States made the difference. 

With just over 60 deaths related to COVID-19 thus far, it has one of the lowest rates when you compare it to the OECD countries. 

 

[Suldaanka]

Australia is on the verge of an exciting possibility

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Scott Morrison might not like to admit it, but we are accidentally within sight of eliminating COVID-19.

Well done to both New Zealand and Australia for managing Corona Virus extremely well. 

[Holac]

Well done Australia. You give hope to your Western cousins. 

[galbeedi]

Just 58 cases this week. 

Suldaanka, it could be the weather since you guys have a hot summer at the moment.

[maakhiri1]

well done,  Should be a lession to other countries, this can be stopped!

[Old_Observer]

Suldaanka,

Don't brag too much. Australia is just an outback nomadic country of 25 million on geography the size of USA.

There are few countries that really acted that had all the making of disaster, and avoided.

Germany, Turkish, Euro Asia/Russia (mix of big land small population and also hard work),

Iran also came out well considering the circumstances. Germany was first in everything..test machine, test materials..etc. Turkish have 3 different kinds of machines. Australia is making progress to vaccine, but has no invention in terms of testing or medication.

 

Considerering the British getting burned by hesitation, Australia has performed well.

 

 

[Tallaabo]

Indeed Iran has done very well. They put the Americans to shame. 

 

[Suldaanka]

@galbeedi

We are in Autumn now, it is actually the seasonal Flu period. So this is actually the worse time. 

@Old_Observer

If you look at all the countries that the virus badly affected, there is a pattern emerging. The whole country doesn't go down at one go. Instead the virus outbreak happens at sub-nationals regions i.e. Wuhan for China, Lombardia for Italy or New York State for USA. 

Probably the key determinant is the population density of the affected regions. In this case, Australian cities are some of the least densely populated in the world. The great majority of people in Australia live in a suburb quarter-block house/land with a backyard. The number of people who live in a apartment or condo (US lingo) is a minority, these are exclusively for lifestyle i.e. childless couples or singles who want to live somewhere closer to the town centre. 

So, I think that is probably a plus for Australia. But still, it doesn't fully explain the very low number of infections and deaths. Given the fact that Australia has one of the largest Chinese students in the world. Australia is also 3rd largest outbound tourism destination for Chinese people. 

 

[Suldaanka]

This explains...

"The Australian government had already shown a willingness to get ahead of the World Health Organisation, declaring COVID-19 to be a “disease of pandemic potential" on January 21, more than a month before the global body belatedly followed. But the travel ban would be a drastic move; it was against the advice of the WHO and would likely draw the ire of the Chinese government."

 

How Australia bypassed WHO's China problem

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On February 1, Australia decided to move ahead of WHO and never look back. Now it must help find a way to keep the world body out of Beijing's grip.

 

[Che -Guevara]

I am afraid this thing will be coming in waves. America is on its way to losing one thousand people by October.