After 18 Months, Australia Is About to Allow Citizens To Leave

After being cut off from the rest of the world since March 2020, from Monday millions of Australians living on the country’s east coast will finally be allowed to travel as far as London and New York. Yet visits to the other side of the country are set to stay off limits for months to come.

As biggest cities Sydney and Melbourne exit crippling lockdowns spurred by an outbreak of delta that began in June and broke the nation’s prized Covid Zero status, the hardcore restrictions that helped keep Australia’s Covid death toll below 2,000 are being dismantled too — at least in some parts of the country.

Most vaccinated residents of the two most populous states, New South Wales and Victoria, will be able to fly out of the country for the first time since the government barred Australians from leaving at the onset of the pandemic. And overseas travelers entering those jurisdictions no longer need to quarantine on arrival provided they are vaccinated and return a negative Covid-19 test before their flight.

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