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Vaccine development critical to ending pandemic, expert says

Australian National University infectious diseases professor Assoc Prof Sanjaya Senanayake says the world is watching a drop in both Covid-19 deaths and cases as a combination of vaccines and natural immunity has developed.

It is really important that we don’t slow down, but we accelerate to the finish line. But you also have to recognise that no pandemic doesn’t mean no Covid.

Covid will become endemic, it will be less intrusive but still part of our lives, so we need to transition to that properly.

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