Australia has reopened its borders to include skilled migrants and international students

The Paper's reporter Nan Boyi

On December 15, local time, Australia will reopen its borders to fully vaccinated visa holders, including international students and skilled migrants. However, the country's recent COVID-19 situation is not optimistic.

According to Singapore's Straits Times reported on December 15, Australian Prime Minister Morrison said that 90% of the country's people aged 16 and over have completed two doses of vaccination, so he believes that "there is no need to fear the new crown virus". At the same time, he said that because the new crown mutant strain, Aomi Kerong, is "not as serious as originally thought", Australia will reopen the border on the 15th. On the 13th local time, Australian Health Minister Greg Hunt said that the country will reopen the border to eligible visa holders on the 15th as planned, including international students and skilled immigrants, "We will implement the plan to reopen the border under the advice of the Prime Minister, cabinet and chief medical officer." ”

Previously, the Australian federal government announced on November 29 that the country had postponed the opening of the border from December 1 to December 15 because of the emergence of Omi kerong. At the time, Morrison said, "We postponed the opening of the border to December 15 because we wanted to better understand Theomilon and the vaccine's efficacy on the variant." ”

However, the current epidemic situation in Australia is not optimistic. Taking Victoria and New South Wales as an example, the state's Ministry of Health said on the 14th that there were 1189 new confirmed cases of new coronavirus in a single day, including 3 cases of infection with Omiclon, in addition to 6 new deaths. On the 13th local time, there were 9 cases of infection with Aomi Kerong in a bar in the Newcastle region of New South Wales, so far there have been 84 confirmed cases of new crown in the state, including 64 cases of infection with Omiclon.

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