COVID-19 Update: Border opens between Victoria and NSW as NT on high alert

This is your update on the Coronavirus in Australia for 5 November 2021.

Flights between NSW and Victoria have resumed without any COVID-19 restrictions, as the border between the two states reopens.

Source: AAP

Borders are now fully open between New South Wales and Victoria. Families are able to reunite and travel by air on one of the busiest air routes in the world.

The Northern Territory is on

high alert

after recording one locally acquired case of COVID-19. It is the first instance of community transmission in the territory and has triggered a 72-hour lockdown.

The National Cabinet

meets

for the first time in five weeks to discuss the ongoing COVID-19 situation. On the agenda are reopening of international borders, vaccinations for children.

Scientists at the UK's University of Oxford have identified a gene that doubles the risk of lung failure and death from COVID-19. It is especially common among people of South Asian ancestry.

COVID-19 Statistics

VIctoria reports 1,343 local cases and 10 deaths

NSW reports 249 COVID-19 cases, three deaths

Quarantine, travel, testing clinics and pandemic disaster payment

Quarantine and testing requirements are managed and enforced by state and territory governments:

NSW

and

VIC

and

ACT

and

and

QLD

and

and

TAS

and

and

If you want to travel overseas, you may be able to apply online for an exemption.

Click here

for more information about the conditions to leave Australia. There are temporary measures for international flights that are regularly reviewed by the government and updated on the

Smart Traveller

website.