Visitors will just need a pre-departure test (PCR or rapid antigen), and Western Australia remains closed, but otherwise people are free to explore the country
After nearly two years, Australia will finally be reopening its international borders to visitors as of February 21, 2022. Visitors will just need a pre-departure test (PCR or rapid antigen), and Western Australia remains closed, but otherwise people are free to explore the country.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said that international borders will be reopening as of Monday, February 21, 2022:
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Visitors will need to be fully vaccinated, though there doesn’t seem to be any sort of a booster requirement;
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There will be a pre-travel testing requirement, as you can either get a PCR test within 72 hours of departure, or a rapid antigen test within 24 hours of departure; and,
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There will be no testing or quarantine requirement on arrival, so you’ll be free to travel around the country as you’d like; the exception is that Western Australia will continue to remain off limits, as it’s even closed to most Australians.
Until late 2021, Australia had coronavirus fully under control. Then with Omicron, the situation changed rapidly, and Australia got to the point where 100K+ cases per day were recorded. For a while per capita case numbers in Australia were among the highest in the world, given the highly contagious Omicron variant.
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