The NSW Premier, Gladys Berejiklian has announced that ALL arrivals from Victoria, including returning NSW residents, will be subject to 14-days mandatory hotel quarantine, at their own expense, from midnight Friday 7 August [AEST] 2020.
“Every returning traveller from Victoria is in the mandatory quarantine when they get to Sydney Airport,” the Premier said. “We also feel, given the evolving situation in Victoria has been going on for some weeks, that people do that at their own expense.
“There should be no difference from a NSW citizen coming back from an overseas destination in terms of the cost of having to pay [for hotel quarantine] versus the cost of returning travellers from Victoria.”
The Premier also announced a tightening of ‘loopholes’ that would allow for some exemptions, saying “… we are reviewing and look to tightening some of those [exemption] definitions to make sure only those with necessary requirements …. [can] continue coming into NSW.”
