Australia to ease border limits, allow more citizens home
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Australia to ease border limits, allow more citizens home

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With 24,000 Australians stranded abroad, PM Scott Morrison moves to raise cap on number of people allowed in each week. Scott Morrison, the prime minister of Australia, has said his government will increase the number of citizens allowed to return home each week to 6,000 people. The caps will be raised in a “staged way”, Morrison said, with New South Wales set to welcome an extra 500 arrivals by Monday, while Queensland and Western Australia will initially take on 200 per week before increasing the figure by another 300 later. As the country’s number of infections slow, Queensland state said that it would open up its border to residents of the capital city of Canberra, which has had no new infections in 10 weeks, as it looks to encourage domestic tourism. Now is the time and we urge them to start thinking to come up to Queensland for a holiday.” Victoria logged 45 fresh cases overnight and five deaths, the highest number of new cases in more than a week, following 28 new cases on Thursday which was the lowest number in three months.

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