Australia joins vaccination leaders as COVID runs rampant

Last week, Australia passed the 95% single vaccination threshold for the 16-plus population, with 92.6% double vaccinated.

This has put Australia among the world’s leaders on vaccination, with 76% of the entire Australian population now double vaccinated and a further 4% single dosed:

Despite its high vaccination rate, Australia is also now one of the world’s leaders on COVID infections, with the third highest infection rate out of the countries listed above despite us being in Summer:

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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.