for a further three days after two more cases were diagnosed in Auckland.Queensland has announced it will reopen its borders with NSW from Monday, and South Australia will remove quarantine requirements for NSW travellers who test negative from Sunday.
As restrictions ease further and confidence returns, Mr Frydenberg said, “people will spend more, that will help generate jobs and, with respect to the tourism industry, more than 70 per cent of the tourism dollar is spent domestically”. “We’d welcome the states putting their hands in their pockets and spending a little bit more in their own states as part of the economic recovery.”Novavax Inc said on Thursday its coronavirus vaccine was 89.3 per cent effective in preventing COVID-19 in a trial conducted in the United Kingdom, and was nearly as effective in protecting against the more highly contagious variant first discovered in the UK, according to a preliminary analysis.