
Australia's biggest city is starting to live with Covid. Other countries will be watching
CNN
For more than a year and a half, Australia has shut itself off from the world, closing borders and imposing strict lockdowns to stamp out Covid-19 outbreaks in a bid to eliminate the virus entirely. But on Monday its largest city is taking the first tentative steps to living with Covid.
That changed on Monday as Sydney, Australia's largest city and the capital of New South Wales, emerges from a strict lockdown imposed in June to contain a Delta outbreak.
McTighe said she's "excited" to start her life again and see her loved ones, but she's worried about what having Covid-19 in the community might mean for the city of 5.3 million people.

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