Police in New South Wales have asked for 300 military personnel to step in today to help enforce strict lockdown conditions.
Experts have warned restrictions could remain in place until September, with international travel potentially not on the cards until next year.
Australia’s finance minister Simon Birmingham told local media in May 2021 Australians “won’t be seeing borders flung open at the start of next year… given uncertainties that exist not just in the speed of the vaccine rollout, but also the extent of its effectiveness to different variants of Covid, the duration of its longevity and effectiveness.”
Currently, an average of 186 new infections are being reported daily in Australia.
