WA seals border shut until February

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Western Australian Premier Mark McGowan has confirmed that the state will remain isolated from the rest of the nation until February once the state has achieved a 90% double-dose vaccination rate:

“What is unique about our plan is that it’s intended for border controls to ease at a point where there is no community transmission in Western Australia combined with very, very high levels of vaccination,” the Premier said on Friday.

The road map will not begin until the state has reached a 90 per cent double dose rate, which Mr McGowan says will be reached late in January…

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.