Australia temporarily paused quarantine-free travel with New Zealand earlier in the week due to cases of the South African variant of COVID-19 being detected there.
Authorities scrambled to meet a flight from Perth to Canberra carrying federal politicians who will have to self-isolate after a sudden lockdown in parts of Western Australia.
Australia temporarily paused quarantine-free travel with New Zealand earlier in the week due to cases of the South African variant of COVID-19 being detected there.