BREAKING: Western Australia will ease its hard border from Saturday, February 5 at 12.01am, Premier Mark McGowan has announced.
Mr McGowan said the state had now achieved its target for 80 per cent of adults aged over 12 years old to be fully vaccinated with two doses.
“After the 5th of February, cases will begin to appear in the community, that is inevitable but it will not be a cause for panic — it will be a reminder to do the right thing,” he said. “As of today over 212,000 West Australians are eligible for a third dose but only 15 per cent have received one so far,” he said.
Tasmanian residents are currently the only ones that are free to enter Western Australia without any form of quarantine. From today, Queenslanders looking to visit WA will have to quarantine for two weeks after the government elevated the risk level to the state.
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