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Prime Minister Scott Morrison will travel to Singapore for the first leg of a trade and security tour which will also take in the G7 summit, London and Paris.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison will travel to Singapore for the first leg of a trade and security tour which will also take in the G7 summit, London and Paris.
Australia bans arrivals from India, says offenders face five years in jail, fines
6 hours ago People wearing masks walk through a mostly empty domestic terminal at Sydney Airport in Australia. File
Australian residents and citizens who have been in India within 14 days of the date they plan to return home will be banned from entering Australia as of Monday and those who disobey will face fines and jail, government officials said.
The temporary emergency determination, issued late on Friday, is the first time Australia has made it a offence for its citizens to return home.
India recorded on Saturday over 400,000 new Covid cases in 24 hours for the first time, the first country to do so in the pandemic, official data showed.
Scott Morrison has warned there would be at least 1,000 Covid-19 cases per week if international borders were opened - even if the most vulnerable people were vaccinated.
Australians have been locked in their own country in all but exceptional circumstances since its borders closed in March 2020.
Politicians have been skirting around the topic of when millions can go on overseas holidays again since the number of community transmitted cases teetered between low single digits and zero in January this year, with no clear goal in sight.
Doubling down on comments made by health minister Greg Hunt earlier in the week who said trips abroad could remain off limits even if everyone in the country got the jab, Scott Morrison said the nation would be inundated with infections.