rollout would be crucial to reopening international travel, despite earlier comments from Australia’s top health chief Professor Brendan Murphy that overseas travel will be largely off until 2022.could stay closed for the entire year, even with a vaccine.
“That was the assessment we did for New Zealand to start with. Every week I reassess that,” Prof Kelly said.Professor Paul Kelly says a travel bubble may be possible for some countries around Australia. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Christian Gilles“Weekly, I do a formal report to decide whether that should continue or not and we look at a range of details that come from the New Zealand Ministry of Health.
“We haven’t found another green country at this stage; there are some that are very low risk and that is playing into discussions about how people from some of those countries should be quarantined to make sure it is safe,” he said. It will still by some time before international borders are completely open. Picture Jono Searle/Getty ImagesTourism and Transport Forum chief executive Margy Osmond said messaging around international travel being off the cards until 2022 was a blow to the industry, which would need a “pay-packet support exercise” similar to JobKeeper to survive extended international border closures and uncertainty around domestic borders.
What crap. Can’t even travel freely in your own country due to coronaphobic Premiers and CHO’s
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