Two weeks after the entire state was declared high-risk, Tasmania will re-open its border with Victoria from midnight tonight.
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Public Health Director Dr Mark Veitch made the announcement late Thursday afternoon, saying the decision was based on the current situation in Victoria, which recorded seven local COVID-19 cases on Thursday.
"Public health responses and lockdown have identified cases and limited onward spread, such that almost all recent cases were already in quarantine before they became infectious," Dr Veitch said.
It means from midnight tonight people in home or hotel quarantine in Tasmania because they were recently in Victoria will be able to leave quarantine, as long as they have not been at a high-risk premises in Victoria or another state, or anywhere in NSW, in the past 14 days.
It also means that from Friday people will be once again able to enter Tasmania from Victoria, provided they have not been at high-risk premises.
"People who have been at a high-risk premises in Victoria are still required to remain in quarantine until their quarantine and testing requirements have been completed," Dr Veitch said.
People who have recently entered Tasmania from interstate are reminded to check for newly listed high-risk premises in the jurisdictions they visited every day for 14 days after arriving in Tasmania.
The state's borders remain closed to all of NSW, with high-risk premises also declared in South Australia and Queensland.
Earlier this week Premier Peter Gutwein said Tasmania was monitoring the potential easing of lockdown in South Australia and Victoria, before making any changes to their border restrictions with those states.
Meanwhile, the number of new local COVID-19 infections in NSW spiked on Thursday to a record high of 239, as the state's government tightens restrictions on masks and movement in eight council hotspots in west and southwest Sydney.
Two more people have also died - a woman in her 90s and man in his 80s, both from southwest Sydney - taking the death toll for the outbreak to 13.
At least 22 of those people were circulating in the community for part of their illness, and 66 were infectious in the community for the entire time.
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