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Passengers flying into Australia must test negative for Covid-19 before boarding – but flights from the UK will continue despite new strain
Australians returning home will have to test negative for Covid-19 before boarding flights, National Cabinet agreed on Friday.
The federal government had come under pressure to mandate pre-flight testing after several returned travellers were diagnosed with a highly infectious strain of Covid-19 from the UK.
The National Cabinet also agreed that the cap on international arrivals will not increase to prevent hotel quarantine coming under more pressure.
Australians returning home will have to test negative for Covid-19 before boarding flights, National Cabinet agreed on Friday. Pictured: A family arriving in Brisbane in December
Masks will also be made mandatory on domestic and international flights.
It comes after a hotel quarantine cleaner caught the new UK strain of the virus from a returned traveller in Brisbane, prompting the state government to plunge the city into a three-day lockdown.
Every state and territory has declared Brisbane a hotspot and either banned travel or required quarantine for anyone from the city.
The federal government had come under pressure to mandate pre-flight testing. Pictured: Passengers at Brisbane Airport
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