Months to Go Before New ‘COVID Normal’ in Australia

Cafes in Melbourne's Degraves street open for dine in customers on June 01, 2020 in Melbourne, Australia. Darrian Traynor/Getty Images

Governments will not be able to say what “the new normal” will look like before a COVID-19 vaccine is rolled out widely.

And chief medical officer Paul Kelly doesn’t expect that COVID-safe normal to appear until the second half of 2021.