NSW will accept an extra 500 international travellers per week on the condition that other states and territories double their own numbers to share the load | LucyCormack Kaubo
"By anyone's standards, at this point in time NSW doesn't have any hot spots. I'd be arguing there is no reason to keep the borders closed today."
"You don't really want to make decisions based on one case or two cases because often it takes a few days to test the genomics."The Premier used her comments to further encourage Qantas to stay based in NSW, rather than move to Queensland , saying NSW had demonstrated a "culture" of pushing for domestic travel and economic growth.
On Wednesday NSW recorded 10 new COVID-19 cases, including six returned travellers and four locally acquired- all linked to known cases or clusters. Ms Berejiklian said her government would be making some amendments to border restrictions for "consistency", increasing the size of its border bubble in amendments to looked at "today or tomorrow".
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