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Coronavirus: Can Australia actually eliminate COVID-19 and how is it done?

Steve Evans
Updated April 15 2021 - 12:26am, first published July 16 2020 - 12:30am
What went wrong in Australia's effort to squash the virus? Picture: Shutterstock
What went wrong in Australia's effort to squash the virus? Picture: Shutterstock

This isn't the way we thought it would be after such a promising start: the epidemic is still not contained in Melbourne and it is expanding in Sydney.

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Steve Evans

Steve Evans

Reporter

Steve Evans is a reporter on The Canberra Times. He's been a BBC correspondent in New York, London, Berlin and Seoul and the sole reporter/photographer/paper deliverer on The Glen Innes Examiner in country New South Wales. "All the jobs have been fascinating - and so it continues."

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