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Travellers across Australia and New Zealand have been given the green light to visit Victoria after COVID-19 hotspots in Queensland and northern NSW were recategorised under Victoriaâs âtraffic lightâ travel permit system.
Returning Victorians or visitors from Greater Brisbane, the Gladstone region in Queensland and Byron Shire in New South Wales will no longer be required to isolate upon entering the state after Victorian Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton downgraded the threat from orange to green on Sunday.
But the welcome change to Victoriaâs permit system, which comes at the start of the second week of the stateâs school holidays, coincided with the announcement of two new cases of COVID-19 in hotel quarantine.
The Cross Border-Associated Direction No 2 has been updated in South Australia.
Cross Border-Associated Direction No 3
The Cross Border-Associated Direction No 3 came into effect at 2:31 pm on Saturday 3 April 2021
The changes are
All travellers from Queensland restricted zone comprising City of Brisbane, City of Ipswich, Logan City, Moreton Bay Region and Redland City will be subject to Level 3 requirements.
Level 3 requirements are:
Must quarantine until they receive a negative COVID-19 test result after the day 1 test
Must not enter a high risk setting for a period of 14 days after arrival in SA, unless they are permitted to enter pursuant to clause 9 of the Direction
This does not include those who have just transited through Brisbane Airport.
Anyone entering the Northern Territory from a declared hotspot must undertake 14 days of mandatory, supervised quarantine at the Alice Springs or Howard Springs quarantine facilities at a cost of $2,500 per person. Quarantine will be undertaken at the first urban centre you arrive at.
Existing and current CHO testing directions remain for the places and dates listed below and up until a hotspot declaration was made:
Those who have arrived in the Northern Territory from the Toowoomba Region from 26 March 2021;
Those who have arrived in the Northern Territory from the City of Ipswich, Logan City and Redland City from 25 March 2021;
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