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You must show evidence that you have been vaccinated, at least seven days prior to international travel into or out of Australia, with a vaccine approved or recognised by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA). Travellers vaccinated in Australia will need to present an Australian International COVID-19 Vaccination Certificate (ICVC).

Fully vaccinated Australians will be able to travel to the US and Canada without having to quarantine from 8 November. For travel to the US, the full vaccination requirement applies to anyone over 18 years. For Canada, it applies to anyone over 12. All travellers must have had their second vaccine shot 14 days before entry. Before boarding a US or Canada flight, you must be able to provide proof of a negative COVID-19 PCR test result. The test must have been taken within 72 hours before departure. For travellers to Canada, an ArriveCAN application, which includes your travel and contact information, quarantine plan and Covid-19 symptom self-assessments, must also be submitted before departure. ESTA requirements still stand. Once arriving in the US or Canada, travellers are not required to complete another COVID-19 test.

Flight Centre Travel Group has partnered with a company called Healius, which runs a network of pathology labs around Australia. Healius can provide you with pre-departure COVID-19 testing and a certificate for travel when required. For information on pre-departure testing visit Healius Pathology. https://commercial.healius.com.au/faq.

China is reimposing new lockdowns amid rising COVID-19 infections as the country recorded more than 100 cases across 11 provinces over the last week. Infections have been reported in nearly a third of the country’s provinces and regions, with all medium- and high-risk regions concentrated in Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Ningxia, Guizhou, and Beijing. Authorities have banned travel agencies from organising cross-provincial tours in these regions and heightened entry restrictions, requiring travellers from any areas with confirmed cases to present negative tests and undergo 14 days of health monitoring.

From November 23: Open borders to fully vaccinated people from all Australian states and territories (Quarantine will apply to LGAs with community transmission and less than 80% of the population fully vaccinated.) Vaccinated international arrivals require 7 days quarantine. Unvaccinated authorised arrivals require 14 days quarantine. At 90% of South Australians fully vaccinated: Borders open to all fully vaccinated domestic and international arrivals. Unvaccinated arrivals will require 14 days quarantine.

Effective November 8, foreign national air travelers to the United States will be required to be fully vaccinated and to provide proof of vaccination status prior to boarding an airplane to fly to the United States.

Starting from November 1, Israel will be reopened to tourists fully vaccinated against Covid-19, according to a plan jointly drafted by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s office and the Ministries of Tourism and Health. Under the plan, individual tourists who are fully inoculated with vaccines produced by Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, Sinovac, and Sinopharm will be allowed to enter the country

The far west NSW town of Silverton has been added to the cross-border bubble with South Australia that allows Broken Hill residents to enter the state. People from the two towns can now come to South Australia, provided they have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine. However, SA residents cannot go to far west NSW and return without getting an exemption from SA Health to come back. The directions issued overnight do not include opening South Australia to the south-west Victorian city of Portland.

Queenslanders waiting to reunite with loved ones in Western Australia will be allowed travel to the state quarantine-free in less than 24 hours. Queensland will transition to 'very low risk' from Wednesday. Travellers will still need to complete a G2G declaration and undergo a health screening upon arrival.

Victoria will scrap quarantine for fully vaccinated international travellers from November 1 in a major step to reopening the country. The change means hotel and home quarantine will only be required for unvaccinated people, those who have had a COVID-19 vaccine that is not approved by the Australian Government, or those whose vaccination status is unknown.

KEY EVENT: Tasmanian Premier Peter Gutwein says his state's borders will reopen on December 15. Fully vaccinated interstate and international arrivals will not need to quarantine from that time, but they will have to return a negative Covid-19 test within 72 hours of travel. Returning Tasmanians will not need a test if their trip is less than seven days duration. Mr Gutwein said Tasmania was expected to be at a 90 per cent vaccination rate by December 15.

Canada unveils international travel vaccine passport — starting Nov. 30, you won’t be able to fly without it

The NSW-ACT border will officially reopen on November 1 after almost four months of hard shutdown between the two jurisdictions. Both NSW and the ACT hit the 80 per cent fully vaccinated target on Monday, making them the first places in the country to reach the important jab milestone. “Subject to the public health risk at the time, the ACT will remove the Covid-Affected Area declaration across NSW from 1 November,” ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr, pictured above, said. “This means that ACT residents will not have quarantine when they return to the territory from any part of NSW — including Greater Sydney. “This aligns with the decision from the NSW government to allow travel from Greater Sydney into their regional areas from 1 November.”

At 11:59pm on Tuesday, October 19 2021, there will no longer be any red zones in New South Wales. All Local Government Areas in the Greater Sydney region — including Blue Mountains, Central Coast, Shellharbour and Wollongong — will become orange zones. All Local Government Areas in the remainder of regional New South Wales, plus Jervis Bay Territory, will move from red/orange zones to green zones. In addition, Broken Hill in New South Wales and Shepparton in Victoria will rejoin the New South Wales-Victoria cross-border community area. The ACT remains an orange zone. These changes will come into effect at the same time as broader changes to Victoria's travel permit system announced last week, which means that after 11:59pm on Tuesday, those who have had two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine and have been in the Sydney area can enter Victoria on an orange zone permit without any quarantine or testing requirements. People who are not fully vaccinated entering on an orange zone permit must isolate on arrival, get tested within 72 hours, and stay isolated until they receive a negative result. Those people who are currently active red zone permit holders in Victoria will be considered orange zone permit holders at 11:59pm.

Travellers from Queensland will no longer need to quarantine in WA from this Friday, Premier Mark McGowan has announced. Mr McGowan said Queensland would be reclassified from low risk to very low risk as of 12.01am on Friday, 22 October 2021. Under WA’s controlled border, the NT, South Australia and Tasmania are all classified very low risk. The ACT is medium risk, while Victoria and New South Wales remain as extreme risk.

Fully vaccinated residents entering Victoria from the Greater Sydney region will no longer need to quarantine or get tested for Covid-19, as Victorian health authorities remove NSW’s “red zone” status. From 11.59pm on Tuesday, 19 October 2021, all Greater Sydney LGAs, including the Blue Mountains, Central Coast, Shellharbour and Wollongong regions, will become “orange zones” under Victoria’s traffic light travel system. LGAs in the remainder of regional NSW will also be downgraded to “green zones” at 11.59pm, meaning residents outside the Greater Sydney region only need to obtain a permit before entry into Victoria. Victorian health authorities said children under the age of 12, who are not eligible for vaccination, can travel under a parent's permit. If a parent or guardian is not fully vaccinated, they will be required to follow the requirements that apply to that parent or guardian.

The Northern Territory's Chief Health Officer has now revoked all declared COVID-19 hotspots in Tasmania. Southern Tasmania exited a three-day lockdown yesterday after the state recorded no new COVID-19 cases from an infected traveller. There are now no further restrictions for Territorians wishing to travel to Tasmania.

The Australian Government Chief Medical Officer, Professor Paul Kelly, has confirmed the Commonwealth hotspot declaration in New South Wales will cease at 11:59 pm on Sunday, 17 October 2021.

Tasmania's lockdown will lift at 6:00pm tonight, Monday, 18 October 2021. Premier Peter Gutwein says there will be some additional restrictions. Masks still need to be worn until 6:00pm on Friday. Masks will apply indoors and outdoors for anyone 12 years and over unless in your own home or in your own vehicle driven either by yourself or with your immediate family. Importantly, if you visit someone else's home, you must wear a mask. If you leave the 12 LGAs which were under lockdown, or travel north out of that area, you must continue to wear your mask while you're in another part of the state. If you're somebody travelling into the 12 LGAs from another part of the state, you will need to wear a mask as well. Restrictions that currently apply for aged care and hospitals will remain in place until 6:00pm on Friday night.

Travellers from the South Island of New Zealand will be able to arrive in New South Wales and Victoria without spending two weeks in quarantine from Wednesday, 20 October 2021. Australians heading to New Zealand will still be required to do 14 days in hotel quarantine.