Sydney travellers touch down in Alice Springs after remaining NSW hot spots revoked
SYDNEYSIDERS touched down in Alice Springs today, unaware while they were on the flight the NT Government revoked its remaining New South Wales hot spot declarations
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AROUND 30 people touched down in Alice Springs today from Sydney, unaware that while they were on the flight the NT Government revoked its remaining New South Wales hot spot declarations after the state recorded 14 days without a single local case.
Chief Minister Michael Gunner said the hot spot declarations had been revoked effective immediately for NSW local government areas Blacktown, Burwood, Canada Bay, Canterbury-Bankstown, Cumberland, Fairfield, Inner West, Parramatta and Strathfield.
The hot spots have been in effect since January 1.
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Jasmin Rather, who arrived in Alice Springs for a short work stint, said passengers had been to alerted the recent Perth lockdown but nothing was mentioned about NSW revoked as a hotspot.
“We were delighted to understand the Greater Sydney hot spots had been lifted once we touched down, through word of mouth on the ground,” she said.
“It was a relatively quiet flight there was good seating space between everyone. There were maybe 30 people.”
Kerri Buckley and Geoff Browning arrived back in Alice Springs for work after returning to their home in Central Coast where they had been for the past six weeks.
The couple had been working on a property, and are looking forward to returning to the east coast once their contracts were complete.
“They revoked the Central Coast as being part of Greater Sydney earlier so that was all right with us but we couldn’t go to Sydney if we wanted to come back to Alice Springs, so people had to come visit us,” Ms Buckley said.
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“We’re fortunate the places we went to for holiday’s it was regional and out of Sydney.”
Meanwhile 39 people who flew into Alice Springs from Perth yesterday have since been directed into isolation after several areas of Western Australia were declared hot spots.
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