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Australia joins exclusive club as growth surpasses pre-pandemic peak

Economy expands 1.8% in Q1 but analysts warn outbreaks and sluggish vaccination rates pose dangers

Australia’s economy has recovered fully from its Covid-19 recession, growing 1.8 per cent in the first three months of 2021 compared with the previous quarter thanks to a rebound in business investment and surging iron ore exports. 

The better-than-expected growth means the economy is now 0.8 per cent larger than it was before coronavirus was first detected in China in December 2019, elevating Australia into a select group of nations that have grown over the past 15 months.  

But economists warned the slow pace of the country’s vaccine rollout and an outbreak of Covid-19 in Melbourne, which has forced a lockdown in the state of Victoria, posed a risk to the recovery and would dampen growth.

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