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Canberrans will be able to travel freely to regional NSW and parts of Sydney after chief health officer Kerryn Coleman relaxed the ACT border ban. As of 3pm Tuesday, 11 local government areas in western Sydney and the northern beaches will be declared hotspots by the ACT. Anyone who has been in those areas will be required to quarantine for 14 days upon entry in the ACT. Travel restrictions will remain in place for those local government areas, with non-ACT residents still unable to enter the territory without an exemption. However the rest of Sydney, Central Coast and Wollongong will no longer be considered COVID-19-affected areas. It will mean people currently in quarantine in the ACT from the Central Coast, Wollongong and some areas of Greater Sydney will no longer be required to quarantine. They will be informed of this change via SMS and email from ACT Health from 3pm today. The ACT effectively shut its border to Sydney on January 2 in response to outbreaks on the northern beaches and western Sydney. Non-ACT residents who have travelled from Greater Sydney, Central Coast and Wollongong were banned from entering the ACT unless they had been given an exemption. ACT residents who had been in those areas were allowed to return but had to complete 14 days’ quarantine. The 11 NSW local government areas where travel is still restricted are: More to come
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Canberrans will be able to travel freely to regional NSW and parts of Sydney after chief health officer Kerryn Coleman relaxed the ACT border ban.
As of 3pm Tuesday, 11 local government areas in western Sydney and the northern beaches will be declared hotspots by the ACT.
Anyone who has been in those areas will be required to quarantine for 14 days upon entry in the ACT.
Travel restrictions will remain in place for those local government areas, with non-ACT residents still unable to enter the territory without an exemption.
However the rest of Sydney, Central Coast and Wollongong will no longer be considered COVID-19-affected areas.
It will mean people currently in quarantine in the ACT from the Central Coast, Wollongong and some areas of Greater Sydney will no longer be required to quarantine.
They will be informed of this change via SMS and email from ACT Health from 3pm today.
Non-ACT residents who have travelled from Greater Sydney, Central Coast and Wollongong were banned from entering the ACT unless they had been given an exemption.
ACT residents who had been in those areas were allowed to return but had to complete 14 days’ quarantine.
The 11 NSW local government areas where travel is still restricted are:
- Northern Beaches
- Blacktown City
- Burwood
- Canada Bay City
- Canterbury-Bankstown
- Cumberland
- Fairfield City
- Inner West
- Liverpool City
- Paramatta City
- Strathfield
