Chris Frame catches up with Simon Gandy, chief of infrastructure at Melbourne Airport, to learn more about how the Australian gateway has turned the COVID crisis into an opportunity
Australia’s tight border restrictions have formed a key part of its national response to COVID-19 – and they have largely worked. Despite battling a new outbreak of the highly infectious Delta variant in June and July, the country has experienced significantly fewer deaths per capita than the UK, USA, France, Germany and many other comparable nations.