COVID update: Restrictions further eased and a trans-Tasman travel bubble flagged

In this week’s COVID-19 update, more coronavirus restrictions have been eased in time for holiday celebrations, New South Wales has new guidelines for visitors to aged care facilities and there is a possibility of a trans-Tasman travel bubble in early 2021.

A wife welcomes her husband as he returns to Perth on the first flight from Sydney after four months apart at Perth Airport on December 8, 2020 in Perth. Source: Matt Jelonek/Getty Images

In other COVID-19 news, University of Queensland researchers abandoned trials of an Australian COVID-19 vaccine.  Federal, state, and territory leaders agreed to allow seasonal workers from the Pacific region into Australia.

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