Border restrictions ease between NSW and Victoria

The relaxed border restrictions will mean:

• Victorian residents will not be obliged to comply with stay-at-home orders imposed in regional Victoria while in NSW
• Victorian residents will not be restricted to entering NSW for permitted purposes only.

Residents will be able to travel within the border region for any reason with a current permit.   

The restrictions will expand to other areas, including:

• Pleasant Hills
• Lockhart
• Benalla
• Bright
• Mount Beauty.

Health Minister Brad Hazzard said the changes follow relaxed restrictions in regional Victoria.

“We are able to ease restrictions on the border given the reduced risk of COVID-19 transmission in regional Victoria,” Mr Hazzard said.

“NSW and Victoria border communities have been extremely resilient during this one-in-100 year pandemic as we continue to fight the challenges of COVID-19.”

Learn more about border restrictions.