PERTH : Earlier this month, the Australian government announced a four-phase plan to return us to something resembling normality.
Under this plan, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said, we will eventually treat COVID-19 “like the flu". The hope is vaccines will allow us to live with some transmission without many people getting seriously ill or dying.
But death and hospitalisation aren’t the only outcomes of COVID-19 we need to prevent. New research shows even young people can be left with chronic health problems after infection.
COVID-19 will always be a very different disease to the flu. We should aim to stamp it out like measles, not let it spread. Also Read: Kappa variant of Covid-19: 11 cases detected in Rajasthan, says health