From Linda Phillips, Narrogin, Western Australia
You list places where the virus has almost been eliminated, including Iceland, Taiwan and New Zealand (25 July, p10). In Western Australia, the virus has been eliminated too – the few cases are inbound travellers who are in quarantine. As a result, life has returned to near normal. The hard lockdown of the state border is often credited for this.
But this raises a conundrum: just how long will we have to ban ingress? As the virus spreads around the world, are we going to keep borders locked down for years or, at some point, do we open them, accepting the spread of the virus as inevitable?
If the UK were, by some miracle, to eliminate the virus, it would face the same dilemma.
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