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I think as Australia managed the Coronavirus very well, we cannot afford another outbreak that is caused either inside or outside of the country. I would support for closure of international borders, and even if we are establishing travel bubbles, they should come into Australia in a safe way...

That's true, but mind you that the national cabinet is a high level meeting, which I think it is flagging to the public that the government is working behind the scenes for various initiatives happening in the meantime to push the economy back on track safety. The national cabinet now meeting...

I hope so for January too, considering the quarantine capacity at universities is limited they might need to quarantine different cohorts of students at a time so that majority of international students will arrive on time by March when university semester resumes. Anyways, I welcome today that...

I think it will be interesting to the codeshare arrangements pre-COVID as Qantas only codeshare with CI and KE to South Korea and Taiwan. Perhaps these 2 destinations are best served by Jetstar? It is already late October and I really hope that Trans-Tasman Bubble can be established both ways...

https://7news.com.au/lifestyle/health-wellbeing/aust-researchers-develop-15-min-covid-test-c-1412647 UTS Researchers were able to develop the 15 minute COVID test. I am really hoping that this will be a game changer with the testing regime that we can roll out domestically first followed by our...

My recall is that Tasmania will open to NSW from 2 November, subject to NSW able to keep its local infections at a low level.

First of all, it is based on the assumption that if there's no vaccine, which we know Pfizer vaccine is coming soon as well as AstraZeneca vaccine is on its way to get rolling approvals from the European and Canadian authorities. I expect they will get approved by December this year and the...

I now would predict international travel to NZ should resume before Christmas, except Victoria possibly. NZ is having their electiom later this month and I would say COVID border closure against safe state of Australia is only an election stunt. Once election is over Jacinda would have no choice...

I heard the Federal Government wants Aussies come home by Christmas, and by a one way Tasman Bubble and increase of international cap, I am confident this is achievable, and then we shall have room for international students to return. The HE sector desperately need international students or we...

I feel like international students is not on the top of the agenda until early next year, where we can see a better progress of vaccine and 15 minute fast testing etc. It is because we are currently in the middle of the semester followed by a long summer break which will see universities has no...

I think this is fairly conservative. Because vaccines are having real time assessment by relevant authorities in the EU and Canada at the moment, and WHO has already said today that a vaccine may be available by the end of the year. Having said that it takes time to manufacture and distribute...

National border is different from state borders. The State borders are determined by the state, yet the federal government can punish states in the budget. National border is the federal government issue, now they have decided to open to the Kiwis, soon they will open NSW to the Pacific and...

COVID-19 will never be able to eradicate - we can only suppress and wait until there's a cure or vaccine available then we can let people to get infected since they have antibodies anyways. We will always get cases from overseas and unfortunately there will be COVID outbreaks in 2021 in...

I think vaccine approval is going to be earlier than you thought, especially when tonight's budget has assumed a vaccine is available in 2021, as well as Greg Hunt and various ministers have been openly optimistic about a vaccine early next year. My worry about Australia is that if we only have...

Well, Pfizer Vaccine is due to get approval from FDA in weeks and AZD1222 vaccine should have its results by the end of November, I don't understand why we still need to wait until middle of next year so that we can fly overseas again? My bet is that international travel will commence in stages...

This is in line with my expectation as the Trans-Tasman Travel Bubble is just a few weeks delayed than my previous thought, and is only one way traffic for now. I believe soon we will see the travel ban be lifted by Christmas and at a minimum we would be able to travel to NZ, Singapore and...

Then the question is, do we really need to have herd immunity before things are back to normal again? I doubt, as surveys have indicated only 60% of people would like to get vaccinated and under your calculation, we will reach a point where sometime around Easter we will see more vaccines than...

Then my question is, as a vaccine is available at the end of 2020 and early 2021, why we will still need to self-isolation after travelling from overseas? Also monoclonal antibodies, as according to Fauci, is a 'safe bet' to treat Coronavirus, and we know that the results are due next month...

If you google 'vaccine', you will see there's a wide expectation that vaccine is available by the end of the year or start of next year: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/technology/science/coronavirus-australia-vaccine-expected-in-first-half-of-2021/news-story/8e0b226e7c450883f4fbd4372cf23f54...

And by the time NSW/Vic has brought their outbreak under control we would have monoclonal antibodies (treatment) and vaccine in place which allows the borders to reopen in December/early 2021.