The WA government announced it would reclassify NSW as an “extreme risk” state on December 18, after daily new cases there surged past 1300, making it harder for people in NSW to enter the state
NSW was downgraded to “high risk” on November 3 but WA Premier Mark McGowan said that he wanted to keep his state COVID-free while its double dose vaccination rate was still shy of the 90 per cent target for people aged 12 and up.
Mr McGowan also revealed his government would halve its international arrivals cap on December 23 from 530 arrivals per week because of the advent of the more transmissible Omicron variant of the virus. On Monday Mr McGowan announced the state’s COVID transition plan, which will see its hard border policy dropped on February 5.
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