Australia 'GO FOR ZERO' policy to eliminate COVID-19.
                     AUSTRALIA 'GO FOR ZERO' 
POLICY TO ELIMINATE COVID-19
 The state of Victoria in Australia has allowed up to 100 
people to attend public hearings, and in five months, 
Melbourne received its first international passenger 
flight, even as Western Australia is expected to open its 
borders to people coming from Victoria and New South 
Wales. 
INTRODUCTI
ON
Source: vox.com
 The improvement in the situation of coronavirus in 
Australia, which had been three weeks without any local 
transmission of Covid-19 until December 2, has resulted 
in a major reduction of prohibitions, with the country 
becoming one of the first to allow spectators to access 
stadiums.
COVID-19 
LOCAL 
TRANSMISSI
ON
Source: abc.com
 The lifting of curbs comes on the back of the two most 
populous states of Australia that have reported little or 
no new cases in recent weeks. 
NO NEW 
CASES
Source: abc.com
 Although Victoria has had no new infections for more 
than a month, New South Wales has documented only 
one local outbreak in the last four weeks, with officials 
reporting to have eliminated the coronavirus.
ELIMINATED 
THE 
CORONAVIR
US
Source: indianexpress.com
 The world has almost stamped out the novel coronavirus, 
particularly in Victoria, the second-most populated 
province, which witnessed as many as 700 daily 
infections in early August, according to data from Johns 
Hopkins University, with Australia reporting an average 
of just 10 cases daily in the past week.
WORLD
COVID-19 
SITUATION
Source: www.orfonline.org
 Besides, since October 27, Australia has reported just 
one Covid-19-related death out of the 908 fatalities in 
the country, having a fatality rate of 3.2 per cent. 
 Out of the nearly 28,000 infections recorded in Australia, 
only 44 active cases remain in the country. 
COVID-19 
Australia
Source: indianexpress.com
 Australia’s strategy to eliminate the virus entirely rather 
than just pull down the case numbers during the second 
Covid-19 wave saw the country recording just 2,000 
cases since September as compared to nearly 8,000 
cases logged in August alone.
AUSTRALIA’S 
STRATEGY TO 
ELIMINATE 
THE VIRUS 
Source: bbc.com
 When Australia continued to see a resurgence of cases from 
late July, steps were set in place by the Scott Morrison 
government with the clear aim of ultimately achieving zero 
new cases and not only flattening the curve. 
 It was part of a policy initiative by the Grattan Institute, 
dubbed "Go for zero" (a non-profit think tank that advises 
How Australia the government). 
managed to 
contain 
Covid-19?
Source: moneycontrol.com
 The government ordered the closure of firms without 
wasting any time, enforced a night curfew and requested 
people not to venture out beyond five kilometres from 
their house. Few Australian countries have also closed 
their borders.
GOVERNME
NT 
INITIATIVE
Source: indianexpress.com
 Australia has ramped up touch tracing in addition to 
expanding training and enforced compulsory isolation. 
 As was observed earlier, the government launched a 
scheme of QR codes to fix the problem of travellers 
violating quarantines that people had to search to access 
any public locations. 
TRACING
Source: theweek.com