Australia’s plan for international travel to resume

A plan to kickstart international travel will be discussed by state and territory leaders at National Cabinet on Friday. The agenda for the high level meeting is expected to include the reopening of borders, a vaccine rollout plan and the response to the bushfire royal commission.

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg asked on Thursday that how many people needed to be vaccinated for international travel to resume. Vaccine implementation plan is now being worked through and will be discussed with the premiers tomorrow. We have seen positive reports of the Pfizer vaccine but the outlook is positive and it’s giving people hope, as it should.

Australia is in talks with countries including Japan, Korea and Pacific Island nations about overseas travel. Scott Morrison said the government was also considering ways to open Australia to Taiwan, Singapore and parts of China.

The Prime Minister said on this week that Australia looking at what alternative arrangements could be had to channel visitors through appropriate quarantine arrangements for low-risk countries. Leaders will on Friday discuss the goal to reopen the nation’s internal borders by Christmas. Prime Minister says that he think Australia are making very good progress on that.