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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Catherine Bennett

Australia isn’t out of the Covid woods yet – when is it going to end?

A woman wearing a face mask crosses Bourke Street in Melbourne, Australia
‘Whilst the virus has evolved, so have we.’ Photograph: Diego Fedele/EPA

It’s hard to predict arrival times on any long road trip, especially when you are not sure of the destination or the conditions along the road ahead. In a pandemic we know that the journey is shaped by a dynamic interplay between the virus, human host and environment, and that generates unpredictability.

Not good news when the coronavirus has already subjected us to two years of uncertainty, but we are making progress towards emerging from the official pandemic period.

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