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A COVID 'ring of steel' around Sydney would play havoc with Australia's supply chains

  • Written by Flavio Romero Macau, Associate dean, Edith Cowan University
A COVID 'ring of steel' around Sydney would play havoc with Australia's supply chainsClaudio Divizia/Shutterstock

If a “ring of steel” was actually placed around Sydney, as suggested by Victorian premier Daniel Andrews, the rest of Australia would suffer in ways that aren’t immediately apparent.

Completely sealing a city or a region is not unprecedented. It happened last year in China, India, Italy and France.

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