The Australian state of Victoria recorded 64 new cases of Covid-19 on Tuesday, capping a fortnight of consecutive double-digit increases. "We would be looking to use exactly these sorts of measures and approaches [being used in Melbourne] to avoid having to put the whole country up an alert level." The whole idea of the bubble would be to "allow people to travel ... as if they were travelling domestically" and currently, the Melbourne situation was even affecting travel within Australia, Dr Bloomfield said. However, there had been a lot of work on a potential bubble over the past month and it was continuing, he said. Covid-19 in NZAs for the presence of the novel coronavirus in New Zealand, Dr Bloomfield said it was impossible to give an absolute assurance there was no community transmission.

Source: Otago Daily Times June 30, 2020 22:41 UTC