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COVID-19 restrictions in QLD will be relaxed from 4:00pm on Friday, 8 October 2021, after the state recorded no new cases of the virus. Pubs, clubs and cafes will be able to host double the number of patrons as under the existing restrictions and people can have 100 guests at their home. Visitors will again be allowed into hospitals and aged care facilities. The use of the check-in app and wearing of masks while entering venues will still be mandatory. Students and teachers will be required to wear masks into and out of the school room, but masks can be removed while seated.

The 70km border bubble with Victoria will be reinstated, except for the Victorian town of Portland. Mt Gambier, Wattle Range and Grant council regions were subjected to tougher restrictions on Monday, 04 October 2021, after a woman returning from Victoria tested positive to COVID-19. But now SA’s southeast will return to the same level of restrictions as the rest of the state. SA is currently under Level 1 restrictions with some additional restrictions.

FIFO and resource sector workers in Western Australia will be required to be vaccinated due to the “growing crisis” of Covid-19 on the east coast, says WA Premier Mark McGowan. From December 1, any FIFO and other workers in remote operations in the mining sector will be required to have their first COVID-19 vaccine, and be fully vaccinated by January 1 2022.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced that international borders will reopen in November 2021 for states that have reached 80 per cent vaccination rates, starting with New South Wales. Fully vaccinated Australians and permanent residents arriving to NSW will be able to home quarantine for a week, instead of paying thousands to quarantine at a hotel for a fortnight, pending the success of the state's home quarantine trial. Travellers must be fully vaccinated with an approved vaccine to home quarantine, unless they are under 12 or medically exempt. The Therapeutic Goods Administration has advised that the Chinese-made Sinovac and the Indian-made Covishield vaccines would be considered "recognised vaccines" when determining whether an incoming international traveller has been appropriately vaccinated. The recognition of those vaccines will remove a significant barrier for international students seeking to study in Australia. Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Moderna and the Janssen vaccine are already recognised in Australia.

Lockdown orders have been extended in several regional areas of NSW, and a seven-day lockdown will be introduced in the Snowy Monaro LGA in the state’s south from 3:00pm on Thursday, 30 September 2021. For the following LGAs lockdown orders will be extended until Monday, 11 October 2021: Bathurst Regional, Bourke, Central Coast, City of Cessnock, Dubbo Regional, Eurobodalla, Goulburn Mulwaree, Kiama, City of Lake Macquarie, City of Lithgow, City of Maitland, City of Newcastle, Port Stephens, Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional, City of Shellharbour, City of Shoalhaven, and Wingecarribee.

From 4:00pm on Thursday, 30 September 2021, restrictions will be tightened in Brisbane, the Gold Coast, Moreton Bay, Logan, Townsville and Palm Island. Public and private gatherings are limited to 30 people, while aged care, correctional centres, hospitals and disability service provides will close to visitors. Cafes and restaurants will return to 1 person per 4 metres square indoors and 1 person per 2 metres square outdoors. You must be seated in hospitality venues when you're eating and drinking, and dancing is not permitted. Capacity at stadiums and events will decrease to 75 per cent, including Sunday's NRL grand final. Funerals and weddings are restricted to 100 people. A maximum of 20 people can dance at weddings.

Overnight, South Australia announced an increase in restrictions for people who have visited Brisbane, the Gold Coast, Moreton Bay Regional Council or Logan City in the last 14 days due to the growing outbreak. They will now be required to get a COVID-19 test on their first, fifth and 13th day after arriving in the state. Travellers from these four areas will also not be permitted in high-risk settings, such as aged care or at events with more than 100 people. This equates to Level 3 restrictions.

Residents from the Tweed and Bryon regions will be able to travel into Queensland for essential purposes like getting food, doing work that can’t be done from home and for medical care. But they can't cross over into Queensland for holidays, going to a sport event or to catch up friends and family. This will come into effect from 1:00am on Wednesday, 29 September 2021.

The NSW local government areas of Port Macquarie and Muswellbrook will be going into lockdown for seven days. The lockdown starts at 6:00pm on Tuesday, 28 September 2021. Stay-at-home orders will apply to anyone who has been in the Port Macquarie region since September 17 or Muswellbrook since 22 September. However, Kempsey will come out of lockdown midnight tonight (28 September) as scheduled.

The Byron and Tweed Shire lockdowns will be lifted as scheduled on Wednesday, 28 September 2021.

Stay-at-home orders for the Yass Valley in New South Wales have been lifted as scheduled. However, Cowra, in the state's central west, will remain in lockdown due to the risk of ongoing transmission, with lockdown now scheduled to end at midnight on 05 October 2021.

NSW has revealed a three-stage plan towards reopening, with key dates to look forward to in October and December. Eased coronavirus rules will be made available to those who have had two vaccine shots once that cohort makes up 70 per cent of the state’s population, and more freedoms will become available at 80 per cent. At 80 per cent, the new activities that will be made available for those who have had two coronavirus jabs will include having 10 visitors at home, playing community sports, and standing up and drinking at pubs. There will be a third reopening stage in December – and those who haven’t been vaccinated will have to wait until then to take advantage of some of the freedoms.

ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr has released the territory's roadmap for reopening. Mr Barr said "subject to the public health risk remaining relatively stable over the next two weeks, lockdown will end on October 14 at 11:59pm." Mr Barr said two households visitors would be allowed from October 1, while outdoor bootcamps would recommence. Lockdown would be lifted as planned in mid-October, Mr Barr said, which would see much of the ACT economy brought out of hibernation with limited capacities, increased numbers for indoor and outdoor gatherings and a gradual return to workplaces.

The Surf Coast LGA and the city of Greater Geelong will exit lockdown at 11:59pm on Sunday, 26 September 2021.

Western Australia Premier Mark McGowan has announced that the state of Victoria will be moved to an 'extreme risk' category from 12:01am on Wednesday, 29th of September 2021. Travellers currently in Victoria with an approved G2G pass have been urged to return to WA before this date.

Double vaccinated Victorians from Sydney will be able to return to Victoria from Thursday, September 30. "So Victorians in an extreme risk zone, which is basically Sydney at this time, will be eligible to return home to Victoria if they are double vaccinated," said Premier Daniel Andrews. He says those people will have to have a negative test, 72 hours prior to leaving New South Wales. Those people will have to do 14 days of quarantine but that quarantine can be done at their home.

The Ballarat lockdown will end at midnight on Wednesday, 22 September 2021. The region will align with all other regional areas not in lockdown. Masks must still be worn indoors and outdoors and no one can come to your home to visit. Point Lonsdale in greater Geelong will also be under the same rules as the borough of Queenscliff.

Lockdown will lift in the Gilgandra and Brewarrina LGAs from midnight on Wednesday, 22 September 2021, and the Narromine LGA from Saturday, provided Narromine has no cases or sewage detections before then. Lockdown will also lift in Albury and Lismore at midnight on Wednesday, 22 September 2021.

Increased border restrictions will be reinstated for the LGAs of Byron Shire and Tweed Shire, as NSW announce an increased COVID-19 public health risk. Byron and Tweed LGAs will become part of the restricted NSW border zone from 1:00am on Wednesday, 22 September. Border zone residents who have been to Byron and Tweed LGAs will only be allowed into QLD for limited essential purposes. QLD residents may only return to QLD if they have entered a restricted area for limited essential purposes. Those entering QLD from a non-restricted LGA, who must transit through a restricted LGA, can do so if they transit, without stopping, using private transport for no more than two hours.

NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard has announced that Byron, Tweed and Kempsey will go back into a seven-day lockdown from 5pm on Tuesday, 21 September 2021, after a COVID case from Sydney was infectious in several communities.