WA hard border to ease for Queensland and Victoria next week.
Today Western Australia Premier Mark McGowan announced the states of Queensland and Victoria will have a hard border removed and instead move to a controlled interstate border for these travellers.
The move to a controlled interstate border is a result of the latest health advice reclassifying these states as ‘very low risk’.
When will the hard border change?
Queensland will be reclassified at 12:01am on Monday, 1 February, while Victoria will be reclassified at 12:01am on Friday, 5 February.
Travellers will still need to adhere to requirements under the controlled interstate border, however, they will no longer be required to self-quarantine for 14 days on arrival.
Under the ‘very low risk’ category, safe travel is permitted into WA subject to the following updated conditions:
- Completion of a G2G Pass declaration, stipulating they do not have any COVID-19 symptoms and which jurisdictions the traveller has been in over the previous 14 days
- All Perth Airport arrivals to undergo a health screening and temperature test;
- Travellers to be prepared to take a COVID-19 test at the airport COVID clinic, if deemed necessary by a health clinician (voluntary asymptomatic testing also available)
- Land arrivals to be met at the border checkpoint, for a health screening and to have their G2G Pass declaration checked.
What about travellers currently in self-quarantine from these states
Based on the health advice, the small number of recent arrivals from Queensland and Victoria who are serving their 14 days of self-quarantine will be permitted to end their period of quarantine on the same day those states transition to ‘very low risk’.
New South Wales is now the only state or territory that remains at ‘low risk’ category, which means travel is permitted subject to strict conditions including 14 days of self-quarantine and COVID-19 testing.
Watch: Mark McGowan COVID-19 press conference Saturday 30th January
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