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Governments have a poor track record just about anywhere for getting things right and while the Victorian experience of 2020 with COVID in the aged care system, it really only highlighted just how poor that sector was managed full stop.

There are still countries struggling with COVID.

Our 10-day average in Australia is a little over 46k cases / day or 180 cases / 100k of total population.

Comparatively:
The UK has a 10DA of 82k cases / day or 120 cases / 100k.
Italy has a 10DA of 63k cases / day or 136 cases / 100k.
France has a 10DA of 97k cases / day or 150 cases / 100k.
Slovakia has a 10DA of 8.3k cases / day or 153 cases / 100k.
Vietnam has a 10DA of 158k cases / day or 162 cases / 100k.
Greece has a 10DA of 22.6k cases / day or 217 cases / 100k.
Germany has a 10DA of 219k cases / day or 261 cases / 100k.
Netherlands has a 10DA of 46k cases / day or 267 cases / 100k.
New Zealand has a 10DA of 17,673 cases / day or 366 cases / 100k.
Austria has a 10DA of 43.5k cases / day or 483 cases / 100k.
South Korea has a 10DA of 387k cases / day or 741 cases / 100k!