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The UK is just days away from starting its first experiment with an Australia-style border restrictions, but already the government is being urged to go further and close the borders completely.
Australian universities may never recover their pre-pandemic market share of international student recruitment, a leading scholar has said, after the prospect of significant numbers of overseas students entering the country this year diminished.
Daniel Andrews, the premier of the state of Victoria, said last month that “tens of thousands of international students coming back here is going to be incredibly challenging, if not impossible, this year,” adding that the state did not have the facilities to accommodate large numbers of students in quarantine. The New South Wales government also shelved its plans to return 1,000 international students to Sydney each week, following new COVID-19 outbreaks.
More Australian States Ease COVID-19 Border Restrictions
Queensland and Western Australia will further ease border restrictions for visitors from Monday, according to updates from decisions made on Sunday morning.
Over the Christmas period, Australia’s states and territories reintroduced various travel restrictions in response to a CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus outbreak in the suburbs of Sydney’s Northern Beaches, followed by, in Brisbane, a hotel cleaner contracting the highly infectious UK variant of the CCP virus, also known as coronavirus.
Below are the latest rules for each jurisdiction as of 2 p.m. Sunday, although things may change depending on how states and territories react to the new CCP virus case detected in Perth on Sunday afternoon that has triggered a snap five-day lockdown for metropolitan Perth and two neighbouring regions.
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