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Treasurer Josh Frydenberg believes Australia has dodged a bullet from the Covid-19 pandemic, both in terms of health outcomes and the strength of the recovery from last year's recession.
But he has warned Australians they are going to have to learn to live with the virus until its impact can be mitigated through the rollout of the vaccine to as wide a number of people as quickly as possible.
'I think Covid is going to be with us for some time to come,' Mr Frydenberg told a Committee for Economic Development of Australia conference in an after-dinner address in Canberra on Wednesday.
'I do think the economy will look different on the other side of Covid.'
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg believes Australia has dodged a bullet from the Covid-19 pandemic
He said there had been a rapid adoption of technology during this crisis and that was changing the way Australians worked, the way they communicated and the way they shopped.
Even so, he said the economy had performed
