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Coronavirus: Australia and New Zealand are on the green list - but their borders could be closed for years
SPECIAL REPORT
Life has carried on almost normally inside Australia (pictured: sunbathers at Bondi Beach), but travel in and out of the country has been severely curbed even for citizens and permanent residents SINCE the beginning of the pandemic, Australia and New Zealand have been hailed among the few countries to have kept Covid out and life largely normal. Strict border controls, 14-day quarantine for all arrivals, and snap local lockdowns as soon as a single case is detected have limited virus deaths to just 910 in Australia, and 26 in New Zealand, against 128,000 to date in the UK.