NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has responded to claims by Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews his state's hotel quarantine has "higher standards" than other states by citing the 122,000 Australians who have returned through Sydney.
"I'm not going to engage in a war of words. Judge us by our actions and judge us by the facts," she said.
"In NSW we like to rely on the statistics and facts. and we've welcomed home 122,000 Australians; we've not discriminated what states they're from. Thousands of those people have been Victorians, West Australians, Queenslanders.
"I acknowledge that Queensland and NSW are the two states that will be resuming their caps on Monday and I want to thank Queensland for doing their part, for a long time NSW was the only state doing its bit".
Ms Berejiklian made a call-out for all states to ensure there was "a timely information flow" between jurisdictions to best combat the spread of COVID-1
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Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews has defended his state's hotel quarantine system stating the only way to eliminate risk would be to never have anybody be permitted to enter Australia.
"No one has ever said this is zero-risk. In fact, I've been pretty clear it wasn't about 'if', it was about 'when'. That's why you have to have these robust processes in place to make sure you're on its heels or in front of it," he said.
"We paused elements of the program two or three weeks ago when we got that first UK strain case. We halved the number of people coming back. in effect, the rest of the country adopted changes we first put in place.
"One of the strengths of National Cabinet is we have been prepared to be evidence-based. I don't think anyone can argue with the notion, this virus today presents a more complex and difficult challenge than it did a month ago."