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According to Xinhua News Agency, Australia's largest city, , Sydney html, will charge thousands of dollars on individuals who fly to Sydney from abroad to spend during their 14-day mandatory quarantine period.
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In addition, Australia has reduced the number of Australian citizens and permanent residents allowed to return to China by half from the 13th to no more than 4,000 people per week.
The above measures mean that it will be more difficult for Australian citizens to return to their country.
Due to the rapid and strict epidemic prevention measures taken in the early stages of the epidemic, there are relatively few confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Australia, and the cumulative number of confirmed cases has not exceeded 10,000 so far. However, as epidemic prevention restrictions gradually relax, the epidemic situation in large states with dense population began to rebound.
Sydney will charge quarantine fees for incoming people
According to Xinhua News Agency, Sydney is the capital of New South Wales. NSW Governor Gladys Berejiklian told media reporters on the 12th that from 0:00 on the 18th, individuals entering Sydney will need to pay Australian dollars (about 14,600 yuan) as the fee for staying in a hotel during the 14-day quarantine. A couple of will need to pay Australian dollars (19,500 yuan) and a family of four will need to pay Australian dollars (24,300 yuan).
NSW requires incoming passengers to be quarantined in the hotel for 14 days. Before the 18th, the quarantine costs of inbound passengers have been borne by the state government financially. Reuters reported that since the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, more than 33,000 passengers have completed entry quarantine, with a total cost of more than 50 million Australian dollars (243 million yuan).
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Berejiklian said: "Australian residents have received enough time to return home. We believe that only they can bear part of their hotel accommodation fees will be fair."
Australia's second largest city Melbourne Due to the epidemic, the vast majority of flights to Australia landed in Sydney.
Australia's government decided to limit the number of entry
According to CCTV News, on the 10th local time, Australia held a national cabinet meeting and made a decision to limit the number of entry till Australia.
The number of people allowed to enter the country was cut from more than 7,000 per week last month to more than 4,000 per week, a decrease of nearly half. Due to the sharp rebound in the COVID-19 epidemic in Melbourne recently, the Australian government is worried that people returning home with the new coronavirus will be superimposed with the current local epidemic, resulting in unpredictable consequences.
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Australia's border has long been closed to foreigners, and currently all return to Australia are Australian citizens or permanent residents. They all need to undergo 14 days of mandatory quarantine after returning to Australia. Another reason for the Australian government to make this decision is the hope that it can reduce the pressure on quarantine efforts in states and territories. As soon as the decision was released, it attracted many Australians who were still waiting to return home overseas. is currently very few international flights and the air ticket price is many times higher than before the epidemic. In this special period, no one would have arranged a cross-border itinerary if it were not forcibly. Some Australians need to return home due to economic problems or health problems overseas, but obviously this decision by the Australian government will add more uncertainty to their long journey to return home.
Australian Prime Minister Morrison also said that the decision of will make it more difficult for many Australians to return to China. But he insisted that the decision was in the national interest.
Australia Victoria The epidemic rebounded
According to Xinhua News Agency, Australia currently has 1484 confirmed cases and a total of 108 deaths.
Starting from the end of June, as epidemic prevention restrictions gradually relax, the epidemic situation in Australia's densely populated states rebounded.
On June 24th local time, Victoria, the second largest state in Australia, reported a death toll on COVID-19. This is also the second death toll in Australia after more than a month. The deceased was an 80-year-old man.
On the afternoon of June 30, Victoria Governor Daniel Andrews announced that residents in several hot spots in the state need to stay at home quarantine. The "stay-at-home order" will take effect from July 2.
htmlOn July 12, Victoria added 273 new confirmed cases and 1 death, and Victoria has exceeded three-digit new confirmed cases for a week in a single day.After the epidemic rebounded, Victoria tightened epidemic prevention restrictions and extended a state of emergency, closed its border with New South Wales from the 7th, and the capital Melbourne City was "locked" from the 8th for a period of 6 weeks.
Andrews said at a press conference: "I know we are asking many Victorians to (comply with epidemic prevention regulations), but we have no choice but to face reality and do what we must do. That is to comply with regulations and only go out when needed."
It is worth mentioning that CCTV News quoted the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's previous report that recently, affected by the rebound of the epidemic in Victoria, Australian supermarket chain giants Woolworths and Coles have launched purchase restrictions in the state, restricting the purchase of epidemic prevention supplies such as toilet paper, disinfectant, disinfectant tissues, etc. to cope with the panic purchase phenomenon caused by the epidemic. At Walworth Supermarket, each customer is limited to 1 pack of toilet paper, while at Coles Supermarket, each person is limited to 2 packs.
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The reason for the purchase restriction policy is that the new crown epidemic has rebounded to a certain extent in Melbourne and the entire Victoria. The government has strengthened prevention and control measures in some key areas of the epidemic. has caused people to panic again, and toilet paper in supermarkets has been rushed to buy again. Woolworths said they found that the demand for toilet paper has increased sharply recently, so they had to purchase restrictions again.
13 confirmed cases were found in a bar in Sydney
According to CCTV News, according to the Australian New South Wales State Health Department on the 13th, confirmed that 13 confirmed cases of new coronavirus pneumonia were found to be related to a bar in Sydney. The latest confirmed case of is a young man in his 20s who had eaten at the bar on July 3.
According to state health officials, there has been a spread of the virus related to the bar’s infection incident. A gym 1 km away from the bar has been requested to be closed and deeply cleaned and disinfected. 12 Australian Defence Forces have also been asked to quarantine for visiting the bar.
Currently, the state's health department requires that everyone who visited that bar on July 3 need to go to the virus test immediately and self-isolate for 14 days.
In addition, another bar in Sydney has recently been fined 5,500 Australian dollars (about 27,000 yuan) for not complying with social distancing regulations. On the same day, someone photographed about 250 people queuing outside the bar, but did not maintain social distance.
According to the latest figures released by the New South Wales Ministry of Health on the 12th, the state has found a total of 3,478 confirmed cases of COVID-19.
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