Australia Implements Face-to-Face Learning On 31 January, Despite Concerns About COVID-19 Spread

School students in Melbourne, Australia will undergo face-to-face learning on 31 January 2022. (photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - Thousands of students in Australia will return to school for face-to-face learning (PTM) after the summer vacation ends. Meanwhile, Australians are still worried about the spread of COVID-19, which on Sunday killed at least 88 people in the country. While some schools opened last week, most will reopen on Monday (31/1). Many schools require students -students are tested for COVID-19 twice a week. Triggered by the highly contagious variant of Omicron, cases of infection in Australia have soared since December last year -- which was the start of summer in the Southern Hemisphere. Now, the number of COVID-19 cases in Australia has reached two million people as reported by Antara. Even though as of December 2021, the country of 25 million people is still recording a total of only 400,000 cases since the pandemic began hit two years ago. In New South Wales, Australia's most populous state and a population of eight million people, this year more than 700 people have lost their lives due to COVID-19.

Across Australia, the total death toll from the pandemic stands at 3,700. As of Sunday, at least 88 people across Australia died from COVID-19. The death rate has risen sharply recently, but is still much lower than the previous rate. experienced by other developed countries. Australia has vaccinated more than 93 percent of the adult population with two doses. Nearly eight million people have had injections of more than two doses. Dan Andrews, head of the Victorian government, which reported 20 deaths from COVID-19 on Sunday, warned that all Australians may need to get three doses to be considered vaccinated. completely.