People travelling to Australia from New Zealand face increased restrictions from today after the discovery of new coronavirus cases in Auckland.
The quarantine-free travel bubble between New Zealand and Queensland, Victoria and New South Wales has had restrictions imposed on it previously as outbreaks emerge and new cases are being traced.
Overnight, the three states reclassified Auckland as a hotspot and anyone arriving from today will no longer be free to skip quarantine. Instead they will be required to spend two weeks in hotel isolation and some may even decide to fly straight back, health officials said.
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A pop-up testing station was set up at Papatoetoe High School following the announcement of cases linked to the school.(ABIGAIL DOUGHERTY/STUFF)
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Public Health Alert – New Zealand cases
Following the New Zealand Government’s report yesterday of three additional cases of COVID-19 in Auckland, NSW Health is contacting travellers who have arrived from NZ since Saturday 20 February on quarantine-free flights to check if they have been to any new venues of concern attended by an infectious person.
As a precaution, people who have arrived since Saturday 20 February are also being asked if they are well and are being asked to get tested for COVID-19 and isolate until they get a negative result, or for 14 days if they attended one of the venues.