# Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) Thread - 2021 Breaking News

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**Category:** The Quarantine Zone
**Tags:** covid-quarantine
**Created:** [January 1, 2021, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2021-breaking-news/929428 "2021-01-01T08:03:30Z")
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### Author: ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2021, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coronavirus-covid-19-2019-ncov-thread-2021-breaking-news/929428/1333 "2021-05-10T00:57:43Z")

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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.

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