Coronavirus Australia: The Australian towns that are COVID-19 free

Large tracts of Australia — including many holiday hotspots — remain free of coronavirus. | INTERACTIVES: CHECK YOUR SUBURB

Where coronavirus infection rates are falling.

Large tracts of Australia remain free of coronavirus as Scott Morrison urges city-dwellers to stay home and prevent outbreaks in largely unaffected rural and remote parts of the country.

More than 135 regions and local government areas have recorded no COVID-19 cases up until Friday in NSW, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia and South Australia.

The Australian towns that are coronavirus-free.

The vast majority of the COVID-free zones are small regional towns and the biggest bulk are in heavily locked down WA.

The Prime Minister said in his Easter message on Thursday that staying at home this Easter would help save these regional and rural towns from being infected.

Coastal towns like Apollo Bay have no recorded cases.

“The coronavirus means this Easter will be different and we will be staying at home. And it’s important because we cannot undo the tremendous progress we have made together in recent times,” he said.

“So this Easter we are staying at home. Don’t travel. Don’t go away.”

Almost all of NSW’s northwestern corner remains free of coronavirus with small towns like Narrabri, Cobar, Brewarrina, and Ivanhoe and Wilccania in the Central Darling area reporting no cases of the disease.

The southwest of the nation’s biggest state has also been given a reprise from the pandemic with areas such as Coolamon and Bland reporting no cases.

Where coronavirus infection rates are falling.

Only eight council areas in Victoria have no cases of coronavirus including the Alpine region, the northeastern historical town of Beechworth and southern coastal towns like Apollo Bay and Colac. Most of the unaffected areas are in the northwest along the South Australian-Victorian border.

In Queensland – the north has been largely protected from coronavirus. The Torres Strait Islands and the Cape are reporting no cases – meeting a priority of the national cabinet to limit the spread of the virus in vulnerable indigenous communities.

Queensland towns like Mt Isa in the north west, St George in the south west, and Barcaldine in the state’s central west are also reporting no COVID-19 cases.

Western Australia has 76 local government areas reporting no coronavirus cases in a sign that WA premier Mark McGowan’s decision to clamp down on travel between the different regions of his state may be working.

Popular holiday destinations like Denmark, Monkey Mia and Esperance are reporting no cases as people from Perth are prevented from escaping to their coastal properties.

And in South Australia – where 77 per cent of the state’s population is in Adelaide – towns in the Flinders Range and Franklin Harbour have reported no cases.