AUSTRALIA CLOSED AGAIN...

Hi All,

Hope everyone is well :). Just your thoughts on borders being closed again...

Am I right in saying > Australia has closed its borders to planned international students/workers for another two week; however Australian's can still travel overseas at this point in time?

The current closure only effects students/workers and their families who were initially going to be allowed back December?

Ive got a trip coming up to Singapore and Thailand and will still travel overseas if those countries do not close to myself... This is confusing.

Benjie.

Correct. Australian citizens and permanent residents can still leave and return to Australia.

The only changes are, depending on which state / territory you return to:

- You may need to isolate at home for an extended period (3 days for NSW/ACT/VIC and 14 days instead of 7 for SA)

- You can no longer connect immediately on a domestic flight and must complete this isolation period in your arrival port

This advice may change, as restrictions are updated.

i'm glad councils are also not making decisions on borders. This is a circus.

racist?!

Yeah I thought that was the case however I had to write it out and question myself as its just so hard to keep up at each end of any border you plan on going to...

Cheers.

Would you people just stop....for heavens sake.

KW72 I’m not quite sure where you’re coming from there is a new version of the bug out there and it is perfectly sensible to get a handle on how to manage it. Deferring visitors for a couple of weeks while they work out infectious rates and therefore quarantine arrangements makes perfect sense.

It sounds like the perfect perpetual pandemic. So do we look forward to another 18 months of wait and see?

GoRobin it’s not 18 months but closer to 18 days. It seems the latest version of the bug seems to be relatively benign and so like the Spanish flu before it, morphs into a version of the common cold. That’s if we’re lucky!!! But good to check it out some more. The testing process to see if that is right takes a couple of weeks. I also note it seems people are not taking the PCR test three days after arrival and then whinge if the system gets stricter. Go figure as they say.

3 weeks to flatten the curve turned into 18 months just to start again with some Plan B still to be determined over the next 18 months.

your in luck Singapore has opened up their Vaccinated travel lane to Thailand from mid december and before the new variant Thailand was about to do away with the 1 night quaratine and PCR on arrival and replace with just a Rapid antigen test after immigration control and then traveller could exit the airport like that did precovid but that has now been delayed.

Short term pain for long term gain.

This is the problem that people don't see the effects of it in India etc and only see how developed nations have handled it post immunisation and isolation.

If you let it rip I can assure you our hospitals will quickly fall over and travelling will be the least of your worries. We're only doing ok because we haven't inundated them.

They’re open now to all and sundry subject to vaccination, with rapid rising case numbers.