Mum’s observations after arriving in Australia:
Everyone is wearing a mask inside….100% (not even 9 out of 10)
You have to check in/out and show your vaccine certificate in every shop – but everyone seems very nice about it.
The PCR testing here is very quick/easy – and the lady doing it doesn’t seem to need to scrape a sample from the back of your skull.
She’s completed the mandatory self isolation/testing for international arrivals (initiated after the emergence of Omicron), but yesterday she got the dreaded ping saying that she was a “close contact” – somebody on her flight from Singapore had it apparently. Happily (for her), the late arrival of the ping means that she doesn’t need to self isolate any further.
The one fly in the ointment is that she has to delay her trip to see my sister (also living in Aus) as my Nephew is having chemo – and so we want a few more days/tests before she is around him. But it’s been 2 years – a few more days won’t hurt, and we obviously don’t want to risk it.
My wife is getting her booster today, I’m getting mine next week – bang on 5 months since our second dose. Will feel a bit better when thats done