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Coronavirus: Australia’s borders likely to stay closed until next year, Australia/NZ News & Top Stories

Jaleel M. by Jaleel M.
June 17, 2020
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SYDNEY • Australia is unlikely to reopen its border to international travellers until next year but will look to relax entry rules for students and other long-term visitors, Trade Minister Simon Birmingham said yesterday.

Australia has been largely successful in containing the spread of the novel coronavirus, which it attributes to curbs on international travel and tough social-distancing rules.

Mr Birmingham said a quarantine rule for returning citizens could be applied to international students and other visitors who plan to stay for a long period of time.

“We can simply work through the 14-day quarantine periods that have worked so well in terms of returning Australians to this country safely,” Mr Birmingham said in a speech to the National Press Club.

The return of international students will be a boost for universities facing big financial losses with the border closed as international education is Australia’s fourth-largest foreign exchange earner, worth A$38 billion (S$36.5 billion) a year.

Australia has had more than 7,300 cases of the coronavirus and 102 people have died from Covid-19, the disease it causes.

It recorded its biggest daily rise in new infections in more than a month yesterday, with the most of them in Victoria, the second most populous state.

Victoria reported 21 new cases overnight, of which 15 are returned travellers in quarantine, taking the total tally for the day to 22 cases, with some states yet to report their data.

Meanwhile, two Australian universities plan to hire a plane to fly in hundreds of foreign students shut out in the middle of their studies by border closures due to Covid-19, a move they hope will start to salvage a major export earner.

The University of Canberra and The Australian National University, both based in the capital, said they plan to hire a plane to carry 350 students into the country next month so that they can complete quarantine then return to class.

The plan has the approval of the territory government but still needs the sign-off of the federal government, the universities said.

The federal government closed national borders in March to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

“We are pulling out all stops to welcome back our continuing international students to campus, and to the vibrant Canberra community, as soon and as safely as possible,” University of Canberra vice-chancellor Paddy Nixon said in a statement released yesterday.

The universities did not say what country the flight would depart from. A university spokesman said the universities may arrange a flight from a regional travel hub so students from various countries could get on board.

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