After a CoV infection case was discovered in Australia, New Zealand temporarily closed the recently opened travel corridor with the neighboring country. The New Zealand government announced yesterday on its website that travel between New Zealand and Western Australia will be “suspended” under the agreements on the “Trans-Tasmanian” corridor.
The authorities of the state of Western Australia had previously announced a three-day lockdown for the Perth and Peel regions. The background to this was the discovery of a CoV infection in a traveler.
A few days after opening
According to local media reports, it was a man in his 50s who flew from Melbourne to Perth on Wednesday. After the mandatory quarantine in Perth, he visited restaurants, a university, a swimming pool, a doctor and a friend there. According to media reports, the friend has now also tested positive for the corona virus.
New Zealand and Australia only opened the CoV travel corridor last Sunday – more than a year after the borders were closed due to the pandemic. Hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders live in Australia. Before the CoV-related border closure, there was therefore a lively shuttle traffic between the two countries.
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