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International travellers who skipped NSW quarantine to fly to Victoria return second negative COVID-19 test
Two international travellers who flew to Melbourne instead of going into hotel quarantine in New South Wales have returned a second negative result for COVID-19.
The travellers, a 53-year-old woman and her 15-year-old son, arrived in Sydney on Saturday from Frankfurt, Germany via Tokyo, Japan and boarded a domestic flight to Melbourne without quarantining in New South Wales.
The negative test means the pair’s more than 170 close contacts, who have been in self-quarantine, are now free to end their isolation.
That figure included all passengers and crew on the Sydney-to-Melbourne Virgin Airways flight the pair were on, plus five staff members at Melbourne Airport.
“The two international travellers are not showing symptoms of COVID-19 and…
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