Travellers waste no time crossing the NSW-Victoria border
Travellers have begun taking advantage of the reopening of the New South Wales-Victoria border, which has been closed for four-and-a-half months.
The border officially opened at 12.01am, meaning people no longer have to go through two weeks of quarantine.
Mark Nochete is a registered nurse who's returning to New South Wales this morning for the first time in months.
"I came in August to help out with all the COVID in the nursing homes and now I can go back without quarantine," he said.
He said he heard some horror stories about the New South Wales hotel quarantine arrangements and was happy to avoid being confined for two weeks.
"Some colleagues they did quarantine in Darwin just to avoid New South Wales quarantine."
Lesley Lees has been visiting her sick father in Victoria and is glad she doesn't have to go through a fortnight of hotel quarantine when she returns to New South Wales.
"Obviously now I can come and visit my father when I need to without having to worry about when I can get home," she said.
Lesley was expecting bigger queues at Melbourne Airport this morning, given how long many people have waited for the border to reopen.
"It's quiet, quieter than I thought, I thought that everyone was going to take advantage of it straight up."
Reporting by Tim Callanan.
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