Australia will soon reach the milestone of vaccinating 95 percent of the population against COVID-19 but there has been a substantial rise in cases since March, with states registering the highest number of daily infections in more than a month. The country reported nearly 50,000 cases of COVID-19 on March 18, including 29 deaths. More than 20,000 of those cases are in the state of New South Wales, where there were six deaths. Of those six people, two had received three doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, three had received two doses, and one had received one dose. To manage the pandemic, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced in mid-2021 a four-phase plan that was based on achieving herd immunity. However, herd immunity remains elusive because of the variants that keep popping up, according to Dr. Sean Stevens from the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners’ COVID Working Group. “It is one of the first principles …