The country will begin to reopen its international borders once 80 per cent of eligible Australians are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, Prime Minister Scott Morrison says. Subscribe: Read more here:
The country remains in the first stage of the government’s four-stage plan to return to normal, which seeks to suppress the virus using lockdowns as the primary tool.
Mr Morrison says phase B, the ‘transition phase’, will begin when the adult population has reached 70 per cent of people fully vaccinated, and a state wanting to move to the next stage would also have reached that target.
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