Australia on Friday said it would keep mandatory two-week quarantine for all overseas visitors, even as vaccinations are rolled out across the country and the world, reports AFP.
Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly said there is still not enough evidence about vaccines’ ability to limit transmission to allow the dismantling of border controls that have virtually closed the country off from the world for almost a year.
Most non-citizens are barred from entering Australia; there are strict caps on how many residents can return each day and anyone who does so must undergo two weeks of self-paid hotel quarantine.
A few thousand short-term visitors now enter the country every month, down from more than one million before the pandemic began.
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