Wellington, May 9, 2021: Health authorities in New Zealand have cleared the way for quarantine free flights to Sydney on Sunday after fears of an outbreak in New South Wales province of Australia eased.
In the third disruption of the quarantine free travel bubble between the two countries established on April 18, flights were suspended on Thursday after two people in Sydney tested positive for the virus. The bubble was established nearly 400 days after international borders initially closed in 2020.
Since the establishment of the travel bubble, the earlier stoppages in flights to and from Western Australia lasted only a few days and the current travel pause with New South Wales would end at midnight Sunday. “The current assessment from New Zealand public health officials is that the risk to New Zealand from New South Wales remains low,” the health ministry said in a statement. “There is no evidence to suggest widespread, undetected community transmission.”
According to New South Wales health officials, despite extensive investigations they had not identified how the latest cases became infected although they believe there was “contact with a currently unidentified person who was infectious in the community.”
The trans-Tasman travel bubble between the largely coronavirus-free neighbours has been hailed as a major milestone in restarting a global travel industry that has been crippled by the Covid-19 pandemic.
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