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WA ‘open for business’ over Christmas but Premier issues coronavirus hard border warning
Festive season travel to and from Western Australia could be thrown into disarray if there is a coronavirus outbreak in any other state or territory.
Key points:
- A COVID-19 outbreak elsewhere could see the WA hard border reinstated
- The Premier does not think the message will discourage tourists
- Qantas has called for a national set of rules on border arrangements
WA will remove its hard border with New South Wales and Victoria next Tuesday, allowing travellers to spend a quarantine-free Christmas in the west.
It will leave South Australia as the only jurisdiction from which travel to WA is banned, except for people who meet strict exemption criteria.
Airlines are now scheduling dozens of extra flights to and from Perth in December and January…
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