Sydney pilots COVID-19 home quarantine as Australia looks to reopen border

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SYDNEY: Australian officials will trial a home quarantine system for fully vaccinated international travellers arriving in Sydney, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Friday (Sep 17), as the country moves to reopen its borders despite persistent COVID-19 cases. Australia closed its international bor

SYDNEY: Australian officials will trial a home quarantine system for fully vaccinated international travellers arriving in Sydney, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Friday , as the country moves to reopen its borders despite persistent COVID-19 cases.

Sydney, which has received more returning residents from abroad than any other Australian city, will trial the seven-day home quarantine programme later this month. Australia has locked down Sydney and Melbourne, its largest cities, and the capital Canberra, impacting nearly half its 25 million population, in response to an outbreak of the highly infectious Delta variant that began in June.

 

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