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Australians looking to travel to thecan now do so without having to get a Covid-19 test after the requirement is set to be scrapped from Sunday.
The requirement was introduced 17 months ago and will be scrapped ahead of tourist season in the northern hemisphere following heavy lobbying from airlines and tour operators.will review the policy in 90 days and said it could chose to reintroduce the requirement for a test in the future. The move removes a barrier for Australians who have been looking to head overseas for a holiday – if they can afford the cost of international flights and survive long wait times to get hold of a passport.We go now to Guardian Australia’s intrepid Eden Gillespie who is on the ground in Biloela, where she has spotted a very large birthday cake remains untouched at a five-year-old’s birthday party.
Tharnicaa has spent many birthdays inside detention centres, denied birthday cake. Today, she celebrates her fifth birthday here in Biloela. Home at last.
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