Tuesday 28 September 2021

Morning mail: international Christmas travel unlikely, Covid payments to end, video game speedrunning

Wednesday: international travel unlikely by Christmas without clarity for airlines around key issues. Plus: climate crisis talk is ‘blah blah blah’ to Greta Thunberg

Good morning. Rising Covid cases continue to put pressure on hospitals and health workers. Support payments for workers will end when vaccination rates hit 80%, and political talk on the climate crisis is all “blah blah blah” with no action, according to Greta Thunberg.

International tourism is unlikely to resume by Christmas, according to foreign airlines, who say there’s too much uncertainty surrounding quarantine requirements and vaccine passports. The Board of Airline Representatives of Australia said the federal government’s speculated timeline was “simply an unworkable proposition” for airlines without clarity around key issues, including how many passengers they will be allowed to carry and how vaccine statuses will be checked. One airline source said it was “naive” to expect pre-pandemic travel so soon.

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