And look, there’s no official declaration by our official health advisers, the government, or the World Health Organization. With those T&Cs behind us, when it comes to the COVID outlook for the rest of the year, infectious diseases modellers Romain Ragonnet from Monash Uni and James Wood from the NSW Government say it’s unlikely Oz will see another big knockout wave of infections. There’s a big ‘but’, and that’s if a new nasty variant comes on the scene. As for where things stand now here and around the world, the combo of vaccination/the immune response from infection is seeing cases and hospitalisations fall, they say. Supporting that theory, ANU Professor Peter Collignon is another who thinks “the worst is over”. Note: there are others who say it’s too soon to call because COVID has continued to evolve and surprise. One things that’s definitely over is the $21 million COVIDSafe App. If you’re one of the 7 million Aussies who downloaded it, it’s time to take it off your phone.