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Melbourne WAG Rebecca Judd has thrown her support behind NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet after he announced on Friday the state was abandoning home and hotel quarantine for fully vaccinated international arrivals from November 1.
Judd, 38, who has been a fierce critic of Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews’ failed Covid-zero strategy, said it was a relief to finally have an Australian leader making sensible policy decisions during the pandemic.
The wife of AFL great Chris Judd shared a news article on Instagram on Friday about the quarantine being scrapped, and wrote: ‘They’ll also need to return a negative Covid test before boarding. Finally somebody is making sense here in Australia.
‘Hooray! Hopefully the other states follow suit.’
Footy WAG Rebecca Judd (pictured with husband Chris Judd) has thrown her support behind NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet after he announced on Friday the state was abandoning home and hotel quarantine for fully vaccinated international arrivals from November 1
She also commented ‘farrrrk yassss’ on a tweet about Victoria opening up to fully vaccinated NSW residents, who will no longer have to go into quarantine for 14 days from October 19.
There’s no doubt millions of Australians share Judd’s relief that vaccinated residents are finally being rewarded for doing the responsible thing by getting jabbed.
The former Channel Nine weather presenter has made no secret of her contempt for Mr Andrews, who has prioritised lockdowns in Victoria rather than taking NSW’s approach that vaccination is the only road out of the pandemic.
Judd, 38, who has been a fierce critic of Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews’ failed Covid-zero strategy, said it was a relief to finally have an Australian state leader like Mr Perrottet (pictured) making sensible policy decisions during the pandemic
She shared a news article on Instagram on Friday about the quarantine being scrapped, and wrote: ‘They’ll also need to return a negative Covid test before boarding. Finally somebody is making sense here in Australia. Hooray! Hopefully the other states follow suit’
She also commented ‘farrrrk yassss’ on this tweet about Victoria opening up to fully vaccinated NSW residents, who will no longer have to go into quarantine for 14 days from October 19
She made headlines in September last year when she criticised the Victorian premier for his draconian lockdown laws on Instagram.
She snuck in a swipe at Mr Andrews in a sponsored post for a cardboard company, writing: ‘@the_little_cardboard_co perfect for iso and upcoming school holidays as it seems Dictator Dan will be locking Victorians in our homes even longer.’
She later deleted the post after facing backlash from Mr Andrews’ supporters.
Critic: Judd made headlines in September last year when she criticised Mr Andrews for his draconian lockdown laws on Instagram
Post: She snuck in a swipe at the premier in this sponsored post for a cardboard company, writing: ‘@the_little_cardboard_co perfect for iso and upcoming school holidays as it seems Dictator Dan will be locking Victorians in our homes even longer’
Hotel quarantine will be scrapped in NSW and new freedoms will be restored next week as the state prepares to open up to the world on November 1.
NSW is the first state in the country to announce it will open to travellers from overseas and scrap quarantine rules for the fully vaccinated.
‘Sydney [and] NSW is open for business,’ Mr Perrottet said on Friday.
‘We want people back… Hotel quarantine is a thing of the past. We are opening Sydney and NSW to the world – and that date will come on November 1.
‘We will work closely with the Commonwealth to ensure protections are in place so we keep people safe but re-join the world. This is a significant day for our state.’
Hotel quarantine will be scrapped in NSW and new freedoms will be restored next week as the state prepares to open up to the world on November 1, Mr Perrottet announced on Friday
Deputy Liberal leader Stuart Ayres said fully vaccinated people would be able to return to Australia without any form of quarantine.
‘That is not hotel quarantine, that is not home quarantine, you will be able to return home. If you are a person from another country who wants to visit or work in Australia, and you are fully vaccinated, you will be able to come to Australia and not have to quarantine,’ Mr Ayres said.
Unvaccinated people will still be required to hotel quarantine.
‘People coming into NSW, if they are transiting on to another state, they’ll have to abide by restrictions in that state so if that state requires quarantining people coming from NSW, they will still have to abide by that,’ Mr Ayres said.
‘This will create a chance for people to come to NSW through Sydney and will also present a huge opportunity for Australians who haven’t been able to access flights because of the caps that we put in place to protect our local health systems.’
Meanwhile, Mr Perrottet said from Monday house visitation limits will double from 10 to 20 and outdoor gatherings from 30 to 50.
‘Standing up in pubs will be back. There will be no limits on weddings and funerals,’ he said.
Major recreation facilities will be allowed to host 5,000 spectators while entertainment facilities can return to 75 per cent capacity.
Weddings and funerals will no longer have a cap on the number of guests.
The 20-person cap on bookings at restaurants and other hospitality venues will also be scrapped from November 1.
‘We have only been able to do this because of the significant effort of the people across New South Wales have made in getting us to this point,’ Mr Perrottet said.
NSW Deputy Premier Paul Toole confirmed the decision to delay travel to the regions until November 1 had been taken because of the risk to communities where vaccination rates lag behind the cities.
Delaying regional travel was necessary to protect communities from a virus outbreak because only 36 per cent of regional local government areas have populations where 80 per cent are double vaccinated.
Kicking goals: NSW is quickly closing in on its 80 per cent of adults double vaccinated target as the state reports 399 new cases of Covid-19 on Friday
The eased restrictions will come after NSW quietly launched the vaccine passport overnight.
For those who have received both jabs and have the updated Service NSW app on their phones, their vaccine status will pop up when they check into a venue using the standard QR code process.
Sydneysiders previously had to scroll through their Medicare app or carry a paper certificate to prove to staff they’d been jabbed but now a green tick will appear whenever they sign into a business.
For those wanting to take advantage of the new ‘VaxPass’ they will need to ensure their MyGov account account has been linked to Medicare.
Then either through the online MyGov site or the Express Plus Medicare app users are instructed to click ‘Proof of vaccinations’ and then ‘View history’.
They will then be given the option to choose their Covid vaccine digital certificate and link this with the Service NSW app.
Hitting targets: Some 77.4 per cent of adults have now received two doses of the vaccine with 80 per cent expected to be double-jabbed by Saturday
Meanwhile, NSW residents who have been fully vaccinated will soon be allowed to travel to Victoria without having to go into quarantine for 14 days.
From October 19, double-jabbed residents arriving from ‘red zones’ will be required to get tested for Covid-19 three days before travelling to Victoria. They must then get tested when they enter Victoria and isolate until they receive a negative result.
Residents travelling from ‘orange zones’ will no longer be required to get a test or isolate.
Health Minister Martin Foley said it was time to start rewarding fully-vaccinated travellers.
‘Our border settings are changing as we move towards a managed easing of restrictions – and people who are fully vaccinated have a right to reduced requirements because they present reduced risk,’ he said.
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