- Fully vaccinated eligible Australian travellers to New Zealand will not be required to self-isolate anymore from Wednesday March 2 at 11.59pm.
- Testing on arrival and on day 5 or 6 will still be a requirement.
- Only , including residents, their partners, dependent children and parents.
- Western Australia will introduce stricter restrictions from Thursday 3 March, on the same day the state will open its borders.
- The will include mask mandates for children starting from Year 3, home gatherings capped at 10 people, outdoor events capped at 500 people and theatres and cinemas limited to 50 per cent capacity.
- Hong Kong authorities are not ruling out a new lockdown. With 34,466 new cases yesterday, the situation is becoming increasingly difficult with facilities for storing dead bodies at hospitals and public mortuaries at full capacity.
COVID-19 Australian Stats
New South Wales reported 1,098 patients hospitalised with 49 in intensive care. There were 9 deaths, and 8,874 new cases of COVID-19.
In Victoria, 255 people are in hospital with 41 in ICU and 5 on ventilators. There were 18 deaths and 6,879 new infections.
Tasmania has recorded no deaths with 957 new COVID-19 cases. 13 people are in hospital with COVID-19, two of them requiring intensive care.
In the ACT 45 people are now in hospital with COVID-19, none of them requiring intensive care, with 692 new infections reported.
In Queensland, there were 4,453 new COVID-19 cases and 10 deaths. 316 people are hospitalised with COVID-19, with 26 patients in ICU.
In South Australia 111 people are currently in hospital with COVID-19 and 9 of them are in ICU, with 2 on ventilators. There were 2 deaths and 1,618 new cases.
In the Northern Territory there were 565 new cases of COVID-19. 86 people are now in hospital with 4 patients in ICU.
In Western Australia there were 1,179 cases of COVID-19 with 16 people currently in hospital, none of them requiring intensive care.
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