(MENAFN)The aviation sector has been one of the hardest-affected sectors worldwide throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. This has been no truer than in Australia, a country that because of its closed-border, "COVID-zero" strategy has been called "Fortress Australia."
Australia's flag transporter airline Qantas, which is preparing to witness a yearly loss of more than 2 billion Australian dollars (about USD1.47 billion) in the 2021 fiscal year, is once again plagued by uncertainty as several Australian states have shut their borders and their local airways due to recent outbursts produced by the highly infectious Delta variant.
Last Friday, Australia's most densely inhabited state of New South Wales (NSW) announced the outburst a "national emergency," while the states of Victoria and South Australia are still in lockdown.
In addition, inside the hermit nation, states are consecutively shutting their borders, with Victoria's Premier Daniel Andrews demanding a "ring of steel" around NSW, the country's coronavirus epicenter.
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