Mr Turner said as a result of those interviews, three people were sent back to Melbourne on Monday morning. The people unfortunately did not quite understand what they were required to do, Mr Turner said. They went and stayed in one of the greater Melbourne hot spots last night and they were deemed to not be qualified to enter the Whitsundays. They were understanding, they were disappointed obviously. Mr Turner said the flight loading for the airport before the border closing was excellent and continuing flights allowed people who had been staying in the Whitsundays to get home. February and March are already typically challenging months for tourism, so the border closure is expected to add to the challenge.
South Africa has decided to reopen 20 land borders on Monday with a new set of rules.
In a statement on Saturday, Department of Home Affairs said, the move follows a cabinet decision to reopen the 20 land borders to ordinary travel.
The country’s land borders have been closed since January 11 in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Premium Content Police are blitzing the border and Queensland airports on the lookout for Victorians and Western Australians trying to sneak into the state. Queenslanders returning from declared hotspots in the two states are also in the sights of cops who have ramped up patrols after the border was again slammed shut to people travelling from Greater Melbourne after the city s latest COVID-19 outbreak. All of Western Australia was declared a COVID-19 hotspot last month but that ruling is set to expire at 1am on Sunday. Melbourne residents Elle Lacey, Matt Blunden and Richard Blunden have just finished a holiday in Cairns and will now return to another lockdown in Melbourne. Picture: Brendan Radke
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Deputy Premier Steven Miles has confirmed Queensland will reinstate its border declaration system as national concern grows over the Melbourne outbreak.