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…