Tasmania’s Safe Border Strategy

Peter Gutwein,Premier

Today we have released Tasmania’s Safe Border Strategy which highlights key action areas to maintain a vigilant and proactive approach to managing the COVID-19 risk at our borders, in our community and vulnerable settings as we move to ease our border restrictions.

At this stage, our plan continues to be that on October 26 we will open to the low risk jurisdictions of South Australia, Western Australia, the Northern Territory, Queensland, and the ACT.

We are continuing to monitor the situation in New South Wales closely and we will provide an update on October 19, about our border arrangements with that state.

Our Safe Borders Strategy is based on and supported by a robust planning framework for Tasmanian settings, the COVID-19 Case and outbreak management framework for Tasmanian settings, which is publicly available on the Department of Health website.

I want to assure Tasmanians that the processes we will put in place at our borders will be sensible and robust.

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