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One of all the visitors from New Zealand who arrived in Sydney on Friday. The man in the picture is not one of those who moved to Melbourne.
Seventeen travelers from New Zealand have ended up in limbo since moving to Melbourne.
The authorities are now scratching their heads over what will happen to them.
– We are disappointed that this could happen, says the state of Victoria’s Prime Minister Daniel Andrews.
The first foreign visitors since March landed in Australia on Friday.
But when the uprising wiped out the hundreds of travelers who had landed in Sydney, it wasn’t long before unexpected trouble emerged.
Seventeen of the travelers immediately continued to Melbourne, where they were not received with open arms. Absolutely.
– We have done exactly what the Prime Minister (Scott Morrison) wanted and we have opened the border with New South Wales, but now 17 people have turned up here who shouldn’t have done it. There will be new flights from New Zealand on Sunday and now we will make sure this is not repeated, says Victoria’s Prime Minister Daniel Andrews at a press conference.
Where are the 17?
Melbourne, and the entire state of Victoria, are not included in the bilateral agreement between neighboring countries and people who come from abroad with the temporary rules in force cannot go to Melbourne.
At the same time, it is allowed to enter Victoria from the state of New South Wales, where Sydney is located, without being in quarantine. So travelers have broken the rules? And what is more important: what happens to them now?
And where are they
The 17 were able to leave Tullamarine airport within minutes of landing, and the authorities do not know where they are going now, or who they are or even their nationalities.
A new case of infection
– We are waiting for the border police to give us the information they gave us on the flight so that we can find them and go there and talk to them, says Daniel Andrews.
– They must get the correct information on what applies here and make sure they follow the rules we have, with mouth guards and that you must stay inside, says Andrews clearly annoyed, who does not rule out that they can be sent back to Sydney and then forced to 14 days of quarantine to come from Melbourne.
At the same press conference, Andrews was slightly happier to announce that only one new case of infection has been observed in the state in the past 24 hours, and no new deaths.
On Sunday, it will announce whether there will be relief from the current tough restrictions in the state, and how big they will be in that case.
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