SYDNEY, Jan 21 ― The state of Western Australia has cancelled plans to reopen its borders on February 5 citing health risks from a surge in Omicron cases elsewhere in the country, as the tally of coronavirus cases since the pandemic began topped 2 million.
“If we proceeded with the original plan, we would be deliberately seeding thousands upon thousands of Covid cases into WA and at this point in time that is not what I am going to do,” McGowan told reporters. The decision will likely anger Prime Munster Scott Morrison who has long urged all the states to open up and learn to live with the virus.
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