International travel resumes next month as PM announces changes to border restrictions
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced the international travel resumes next month and border will reopen for states that have reached 80 per cent vaccination rates, starting with New South Wales.
Fully vaccinated Australians and permanent residents arriving in NSW will be able to home quarantine for a week, instead of paying thousands to quarantine at a hotel for a fortnight, pending the success of the state’s home quarantine trial.
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Commercial flights out of Australia will resume for vaccinated Australians. Mr Morrison said the government would consider quarantine-free travel between some countries, such as New Zealand, “when it is safe to do so”. |
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“It’s time to give Australians their lives back,”
Travellers must be fully vaccinated with an approved vaccine to home quarantine, unless they are under 12 or medically exempt.
The Therapeutic Goods Administration has advised that the Chinese-made Sinovac and the Indian-made Covishield vaccines would be considered “recognised vaccines” when determining whether an incoming international traveller has been appropriately vaccinated.
The recognition of those vaccines will remove a significant barrier for international students seeking to study in Australia.
Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Moderna and the Janssen vaccine are already recognised in Australia.
To maximise the number of Australians who can return, our government is also offering facilitated flights into any state or territory that agrees to commence seven day home quarantine trials for returning Australians. Unvaccinated travellers will be required to hotel quarantine for a fortnight.
Flights to the United Kingdom, the United States, Japan, Singapore, Canada, and Fiji have been flagged as some of the first countries where routes will be serviced.
— source ABC News, Australia
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