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news How Delta burst Australia s Covid bubble © EPA A rise in Covid cases across the country has brought back restrictions for most of the nation For the past year, Australia has been coasting along almost blissfully detached from the global pandemic. It had achieved a Covid normal where people could visit restaurants and nightclubs and join crowds at festivals and theatres. The country s strong Covid defences - border closures and mandatory quarantine - worked 99.99% of the time. When cases did leak, officials acted quickly, aggressively locking down cities and hunting down every infected contact. Sydney - Australia s biggest and richest city - managed to avoid regular snap lockdowns helped by a gold standard contact-tracing system.

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