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Tasmania lifts travel ban with Melbourne

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Melbourne will be reclassified as low COVID risk for Tasmania from 12.01am on Tuesday.
Camera IconMelbourne will be reclassified as low COVID risk for Tasmania from 12.01am on Tuesday. Credit: EPA

Tasmania is lifting coronavirus travel restrictions with Melbourne after slamming the border shut more than three weeks ago.

The Victorian capital will be reclassified as low risk from 12.01am on Tuesday, Tasmania's Public Health Director Mark Veitch has announced.

"This follows the extensive measures taken by Victorian health authorities over recent weeks to get on top of several outbreaks," he said.

A travel ban remains in place for people who have been to specified "hot spots" in Victoria at certain times.

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Anyone quarantining in Tasmania who was in Melbourne and not at high-risk premises can leave at midnight.

Tasmania implemented a hard border with all of Victoria on May 27, but lifted the ban on the state's regions on June 10.

The decision to reopen comes at the tail-end of the annual Hobart winter festival Dark Mofo, which usually draws big numbers from Melbourne.

Tasmania is open to the rest of Australia but not to those who have been at several high-risk premises in NSW, Queensland and the ACT at certain times.

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