Canberra: The first contingency of international students has arrived in Australia under his travel bubbles with Singapore.
Tourists are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 departing from Singapore to enter Australia without quarantine for the first time since March 2020, when the pandemic first broke, report Xinhua news agency.
Safe! You have managed to put your voteogin to see international student flights that land in Sydney and Melbourne on Sundays, the first batch of international students to arrive in Australia since November 2020, according to Catriona Jackson, Chief Executive of the University of Australia.
The initial batch will be attended by 500 other students to arrive in December.
“The university has worked with government and health authorities for more than 18 months in plans to safely welcome our international friends,” Jackson said in a statement on Sunday, adding that around 130,000 international students remained outside Australia.
“We believe that today’s arrival is just the first of many who return, on a scale, for the beginning of the first half of next year.”
The profitable international education industry in Australia was paralyzed by close border closure in the country in response to the pandemic.
The university lost 4.9 percent of their income, an estimated $ 1.8 billion ($ 1.3 billion) in 2020 and cut 17,000 jobs.
On Monday morning, Australia has registered a total of 199,659 cases of Covid-19 and 1,948 deaths.
So far, 91.5 percent of Australians aged 16 years and over have received one dose of vaccines and 85.1 percent fully inoculated against viruses, according to the Ministry of Health.
International students returned as Australia opened the border to Singapore
