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Last Tuesday the Australian authorities cleared Nepal Airlines to fly to Brisbane, to repatriate Australian tourists stuck in Nepal. The 250 Australian and New Zealand tourists aboard a Nepal Airlines flight that landed at Brisbane Airport yesterday have gone straight into quarantine. They were lucky they got back into the country before today's tough new border restrictions come into effect. State Disaster Co-ordinator Deputy Commissioner Steve Gollschewski said the passengers were treated like any other international flight, but he noted that come Friday, any international visitors arriving by plane who do not have an exemption or residency will be turned around on the air bridge. They are being put through the process of understanding who they are, if they have an exemption to come back into Queensland or not, if they are a resident, and ... they are being placed into quarantine." The Nepal Airlines flight was the the first and final flight to Australia from the south-east Asian nation for the foreseeable future, according to the Australian Embassy. It's not clear on whether any passengers were showing novel corona-virus symptoms upon their arrival in Brisbane. The carrier had originally planned to land at the Sydney airport but the plan changed after the Australian government refused to issue landing permit citing poor quarantine facility in Sydney, which has reported most infected cases of Covid-19.
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