The Emergency Management (Cross Border Travel No 2) (COVID-19) Direction 2020 will be revoked and replaced by the Emergency Management (Cross Border Travel No 3) (COVID-19) Direction 2020. This new Direction comes into effect on 16 April 2020 2359hrs.
The Direction has been updated to include new information about who is regarded as an essential traveller. These updates include:
– Active military and Defence Department personnel (including civilian staff and private contractors) and personnel required to support time critical national security and defence activities.
– Health services, specifically persons who are requested by the Chief Executive of the Department for Health and Wellbeing, or by the Secretary of the Commonwealth Department of Health.
– FIFO workers, provided that their employer is applying risk mitigation strategies during periods of work.
Anyone who fits the description of the above essential traveller criteria are able to enter South Australia without self-quarantining for a full 14 day period. Anyone who claims to be an essential traveller will be required to provide evidence that they fall within that category.
Additionally, people who travel to South Australia to visit a critically or terminally ill relative, or to attend the funeral of an immediate family member, are now able to do so if they self-quarantine during any period during which they are not visiting their relative or attending the funeral.
It is an offence to breach this direction.
Members of the public are urged to read the direction in full, which can be found here.
If you require further information you can call the SA COVID-19 Information Line on 1800 253 787 between the hours of 8am to 8pm seven days a week or go to the SA Health website at www.sahealth.sa.gov.au or www.sa.gov.au/covid-19
