Today marks the first day of confirmed cases in Australia of the Omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus.
Just as the country begins to open back up after the Delta wave, Omicron is sending politicians, economists and public health officials scrambling, after many promised there would never be a lockdown again.
Not much is yet known about the new variant that is said to have originated from southern Africa. Poorer countries around the world have had far less access to vaccines, as a global divide between rich and poor becomes more and more evident.
Part of an ongoing series, ‘COVID-19 Diaries’.
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