WA border controls strengthened with Queensland

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Due to the evolving COVID-19 situation, Queensland will move to ‘low risk’.
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Graphic of Australia with text: Changes to WA entry conditions

Due to the evolving COVID-19 situation, Queensland will move to ‘low risk’.

Effective 12.01am Saturday 27 March 2021, all arrivals from Queensland now need to complete 14 days of self-quarantine and present for COVID-19 testing.

Under the ‘low risk’ category, all arrivals into WA from Queensland must abide by the following conditions:

  • self-quarantine for 14 days in a suitable premises
  • present for a COVID-19 test on day 11
  • undergo a health screening and temperature test if arriving at Perth Airport
  • be prepared to take a COVID-19 test at the airport COVID clinic, if deemed necessary by a health clinician (voluntary asymptomatic testing available for all airport arrivals)
  • undergo a health screening and G2G Pass declaration check if arriving by land before proceeding to self-quarantine premises
  • complete a G2G Pass declaration, stipulating they do not have any COVID-19 symptoms and which jurisdictions the traveller has been in over the previous 14 days

Directions issued on Friday, 26 March 2021, remain in place for those relevant people who arrived in WA, and continue to apply to anyone who visited the exposure sites since March 20, 2021.

For this group of people, they need to be tested immediately and self-quarantine for the full 14 days from the time they were at the exposure site. These travellers are also required to undertake a day 11 test.