Australia has announced that border controls will not be relaxed, on the basis that vaccination does not seem to prevent transmission.
This is a policy/politics statement, so it could change at any time, but it shows what the thinking is now. Foreign Students were ? the third largest source of export income in Australia ?, so this is a significant economic policy.
At present, it’s an open ended policy, we could remain cut off forever, but the actual meaning is that business shouldn’t be hoping for ‘when we re-open’. That’s not on horizon.