Asia Today: Australian states reimpose travel restrictions
SYDNEY (AP) — More Australian states and territories are reimposing travel restrictions to stop the coronavirus spreading from new outbreaks in New South Wales and Victoria states.
The Australian Capital Territory has shut out non-residents who’ve been within the northern seashores of Sydney, the place the outbreaks are most concentrated, Greater Sydney and different smaller facilities, except they’ve an exemption.
The island state of Tasmania has barred anybody instantly linked to the most recent Victorian instances, itemizing publicity websites the place confirmed instances are recognized to have been. The transfer adopted Tasmania’s declaration of Greater Sydney and the Wollongong space south of Sydney as medium-risk zones, requiring vacationers to quarantine for 14 days on arrival, whereas these from Sydney’s northern seashores are barred from getting into.
Victoria reported three new instances of group transmission on Sunday, down from Saturday’s 10. In whole, there have been 21 regionally acquired Victorian instances over current days, all linked to the New South Wales outbreak.
Victoria’s border is now closed to all vacationers from New South Wales.
On Sunday, New South Wales recorded eight new native instances. There are 161 energetic instances within the state, most of them within the northern seashores of Sydney, and 13 emanating from liquor retailer that aren’t linked to the seashores cluster.
The information that the state is battling two separate outbreaks in Sydney comes on the primary day of obligatory masks restrictions throughout Greater Sydney, with enforcement to start at midnight Sunday.
Masks will likely be obligatory in buying facilities, on public transport, in locations of worship, hair and sweetness premises and leisure venues akin to cinemas. All hospitality workers are additionally required to put on one.
Elsewhere within the Asia-Pacific area:
— Officials have examined greater than 4.4 million residents within the northeastern Chinese metropolis of Shenyang after the invention of a brand new cluster. So far, just one case has been confirmed from the testing. Another case was reported in a special metropolis in Liaoning province. China on Sunday reported a complete of eight domestically transmitted instances, together with in northeastern Heilongjiang province, an 8-month-old toddler in Beijing, and one in Hebei province simply exterior of Beijing. Authorities throughout China are on excessive alert as new instances proceed to emerge. Both Beijing and Liaoning province reclassified some areas as medium danger whereas sealing off the residential compounds the place earlier instances had been found. Two universities in Beijing introduced on Saturday that winter trip would begin sooner than ordinary in mild of the epidemic state of affairs. Meanwhile, Beijing metropolis additionally began mass vaccinations for precedence teams. China accredited its first home made COVID-19 vaccine Friday.
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