The easing of restrictions is hoped once vaccination rates of 80 per cent are reached, however Prime Minister Scott Morrison made it clear that those who are not vaccinated against COVID-19 will not enjoy these new freedoms.
He said he does not believe that any premiers think there will be a “willy-nilly movement” of those who are not vaccinated.
“A lot is being said right now, but let’s be clear about what the plan says, when you get to 80 per cent, what it says is domestic restrictions on vaccinated persons should be lifted,” he told Sky News Australia.
“We’re not talking about willy-nilly movement of people who are unvaccinated around the country; we’re not talking about planeloads of COVID going from one state to the next.”
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Different states will handle the easing of restrictions and opening of borders in different ways depending on the levels of the virus, with less affected states needing less restrictions in place.
“What the Doherty modelling shows is that for those states, the restrictions are needed once you go into the 70 and 80 per cent are much less than what needs to be in place in New South Wales and Victoria,” he said.
“In those two states, in New South Wales and Victoria, when you go into 70 and 80 per cent, they won’t have the same level of eased restrictions that you’d see in Western Australia or Queensland.”
