New Zealand has paused quarantine-free travel with NSW for at least 72 hours after the Bondi cluster in Sydney’s east rose to 21.
New Zealand has paused the two-way quarantine-free travel bubble for at least 72-hours after a health alert was issued after a person infected with the virus flew from Sydney to New Zealand and back.
NSW Health has issued an alert for passengers travelling on Qantas flight QF163 on Friday night to Wellington and anyone who flew on Monday morning on Air New Zealand flight NZ247 from Wellington to Sydney.
Passengers on board those flights must contact NSW Health immediately, get tested and isolate for 14 days regardless of the result.
Other Australian states have imposed border restrictions for people from Sydney’s hotspot areas with Victoria declaring seven Sydney local government areas “red zones”.
Non-Victorian residents who have been in the City of Sydney, Waverley, Woollahra, Bayside, Canada Bay, Inner West and Randwick council areas are not allowed to enter Victoria.
Mandatory mask rules have been extended by a week in Sydney, QR codes are set to become mandatory in all NSW shops and there’s heightened anxiety Sydney could be heading for a lockdown.
Premier Gladys Berejiklian did not rule this out but said she had a “degree of confidence” because there was only one infection not linked to a known case.
“If we suddenly have a number of unlinked cases and if we suddenly have them outside the geographic region they are concentrated in, that will obviously adjust the health advice and we will respond to that,” she said on Tuesday.
Source: AAP