Tourists from New Zealand will be permitted to visit New South Wales state, which includes Sydney, and the Northern Territory from Oct. 16, the first major step by Australia to reopen international borders that were closed in March.
”We have to go cautiously on this, very, very cautiously,” Morrison said. “Covid-19 hasn’t gone anywhere. It’s still there, and it is no less aggressive today than it was six months ago.”
Australia’s Victoria state, handling a resurgence of community transmission after security failures at quarantine hotels for returning overseas travelers, reported 12 new Covid-19 cases Sunday in a statement from the region’s government. New South Wales, the most populous state, recorded three new locally transmitted cases in 24 hours, authorities said.
