The exhaustion wins the second city of Australia after 250 days of accumulated confinement, a world record. The inhabitants are no longer in the future, despite the promises of the authorities.
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The end of the tunnel is no further. On October 26, the Melbournians, who hold the unarvoyable record of the world’s greatest number of days in confinement – 250 on October 9 – should regain their freedom of movement. The Government of the State of Victoria has committed to raise the restrictions gradually when 70% of the population over the age of 16 will have received its two doses of vaccine, a threshold that should be exceeded by at the end of the month. Yet in the second city of Australia, the heart is not at the party. The number of patients continues to flambé, with 1,965 new cases Saturday, another record, and the inhabitants remain on their guards.
“I’m like St. Thomas, I’m waiting to see to believe it. But I hope the authorities will keep their promises, otherwise we will end up exploding. The bowl of being locked”, ton Gina Trimboli 58 years old, co-manager of a family business. The Melbournians, who suffer their sixth confinement since March 2020, can currently leave until four hours a day, in a perimeter of 15 kilometers, and for four reasons only: shopping, healing, indulge in sports activities Or find a handful of loved ones, outdoors, provided everyone is vaccinated. “It’s hard, but less strict than a few weeks ago. Of course, I can not wait to travel, but, for now, I’m happy with Melbourne’s seafront, we still have the chance to live in a magnificent environment, “Temperere Sarah McCormick, a single 44 year old.
His mantra: “Stay positive.” If she admits to having sometimes had drops of moral, especially when she lost her work in events in June 2020, she hangs up at a “list of things to do” It serves as a life buoy when the days seem not to want to finish. “I also tell myself that I do this to protect my family, my friends,” adds the young woman, who does not spin over, for fear of being disappointed.
The impossibility of eliminating the Virus
As most of the population, she supported the Government’s strategy of the Victoria State when, confronted with a second magnitude wave in the winter of Austral 2020, he chose the zero covid policy at Price of a confinement of one hundred and twelve days. The goal was to eliminate the virus to save lives, reconnect with a daily basis without masks or physical distancing measures and to sustainably revive the economy by avoiding constantly juggling the containment and deconformation phases. “The coronavirus was wreaking havoc in the rest of the world and, here our friends were not dying. When we managed to fall back to zero, in October 2020, I thought we were out of business. We then lived long months of freedom, “remembers Neil Williams, a commercial who took advantage of the restrictions to run on foot, even successfully buckle his first marathon” between the 3 e and the 4 e confinement “. On October 9, Australia regretted only 1,405 dead since the beginning of the pandemic.
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