COVID-19 update: NSW unveils roadmap to lifting restrictions

This is your update on the Coronavirus in Australia for 9 September 2021.

Members of the public wait in line at a Covid-19 vaccine pop-up vaccination clinic at Marrickville, Sydney, Thursday, September 9, 2021. Source: AAP Image/Joel Carrett

Lockdown lifted in parts of regional NSW
Police set to prevent unauthorised travel to regional Victoria
ACT changes Check In CBR app
Queensland has recorded one new locally acquired case

New South Wales

NSW has recorded 1,405 new locally acquired cases, and five deaths.

Premier Gladys Berejiklian has outlined

lifting restrictions from the Monday after NSW passes the 70 per cent double vaccination target

for adults who have received both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.

The stay-at-home rule will no longer apply, and up to five visitors will be allowed in a home where all adults are vaccinated. Hospitality venues, retail stores, sporting facilities and personal services such as hairdressers and nail salons will reopen under the one person per 4sqm rule.

From 11 September, lockdown will end for

parts of regional NSW

which have recorded zero new cases for at least 14 days.

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today.

Victoria

Victoria has recorded another day with 324 new locally acquired cases, with 107 linked to known outbreaks.

Victoria Police to increase its presence to stop residents from Melbourne heading to the country once regional areas ease out of lockdown on 9 September.

Fines for breaching the rules and attempting unauthorised travel to regional areas can be up to $5,500.

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Australian Capital Territory

The ACT has recorded 15 new locally acquired cases, with at least eight in the community while infections.

The latest update of the

Check In CBR app

allows push notifications to be sent to those who have checked in at an exposure site. Also, a

card with a QR code

is available for anyone who does not have a smartphone.

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book your vaccination

appointment.

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.

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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.