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Australia hits 80% full Covid vaccination rate for people aged 16 and above

Sydney and Melbourne, eased their tough lockdown measures in recent weeks after hitting a 70% inoculation threshold

Covid vaccination in Australia
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Roughly half of the country’s population spent months under stay-at-home orders this year as authorities battled the spread of the highly-contagious delta variant (Photo: Bloomberg)

Karen Leigh | Bloomberg
Australia hit its target of having 80% of people aged 16 and older fully vaccinated against Covid-19, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said, as the country shifts from a strict containment policy toward living with the virus as endemic. 

“We did it!” Morrison wrote in a Facebook post. “It’s going to help us to continue to safely reopen and stay safely open.”

Australia’s two largest cities, Sydney and Melbourne, eased their tough lockdown measures in recent weeks after hitting a 70% inoculation threshold, allowing residents to eat at restaurants and re-opening schools. Roughly half of the country’s population spent months under stay-at-home orders

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