The pair flew from Doha to Sydney on flight QR908 on Thursday, and are now isolating in home quarantine after testing positive for Covid-19. Pictured: A family being reunited at Sydney International Airport on Tuesday
The Omicron variant of covid-19 was first detected in South Africa. NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard confirmed on Tuesday that the latest case had travelled to Sydney from South Africa on November 25.
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NSW Health issued an emergency Omicron exposure site list on Tuesday with major hubs Top Ryde Shopping Centre and Westfield Parramatta among them, plus several supermarkets on the Central Coast.Ī woman in her 30s arrived in Sydney and visited several popular shopping centres in both areas, after reportedly returning from two southern African nations.
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'Additional options for students impacted by travel restrictions include deferring their offer for a later intake or withdrawing completely and receiving a full refund of their deposit,' Mr Anderson said.Īs of Tuesday afternoon, six Australians had tested positive to the Omicron variant. Newcastle University's Deputy Vice-Chancellor Kent Anderson told Daily Mail Australia that students stuck overseas can get a 20 per cent discount if they start studying from home, and complete their studied in Australia when borders open. His parents, who own a hair salon, have been asking him to request a refund and go to a university in Nepal, but Ajay feels as though he would have more opportunities in Australia.Ījay (pictured) is now jobless and waiting for the international borders to open so he can start his finance degreeĪjay quit his accounting job ahead of his flight to Australia, and is now unemployed and waiting for the borders to open.ĭaily Mail Australia has contacted Australian National Institute of Management and Commerce for comment.
'The worst part is I am vaccinated but there are still problems entering Australia.' 'I have to come if the border opens otherwise I will lose 50 per cent of my money,' he told Daily Mail Australia. Jay's December flight was cancelled, and he doesn't know when he'll be able to book a new one. He worked as a junior accountant to saved $24,000 for his degree and had his flights and accommodation booked for early December to ensure he was ready for enrollment in early January, until Omicron appeared.
The 20-year-old had grand plans of studying a Bachelors of Applied on Finance and Accounting at the Australian National Institute of Management and Commerce in Sydney. Savin Chhetry (pictured), 25, runs a Facebook group to help prospective international students organise jobs and accommodation in AustraliaĪjay lives in a tiny village with his parents, about three hours out of the Nepalese capital Kathmandu. 'I resigned from my job to come to Australia, but now they're not letting us come,' she told Daily Mail Australia. Ms Tamang's degree had already been postponed from February this year to April 2022 due to pandemic travel bans, but now she has no idea whether she'll be able to enter the country. The move effectively locked skilled workers out of the country, along with countless international students who pay tens of thousands of dollars to study at Australian universities. While Prime Minister Scott Morrison set a new date of December 15, the international travel ban could be extended if experts deem Omicron a major public health threat. Ms Tamang was excited to start her Masters in Social Change and Development at the University of Newcastle when Australia's international borders opened to foreign students on December 1.īut her plans came crashing down on Monday when the federal government banned all non-citizens from entering the country to try and curtail the potential spread of Omicron - a new strain of Covid-19. Niya Tamang, 24, is among 200,000 visa holders stuck in limbo for at least a fortnight while the government tries to get a handle on the mutant strain of coronavirus and its responsiveness to vaccines. A young Nepalese woman who worked in an orphanage to save $28,000 to study in Australia fears she’ll lose her money after the borders were slammed shut as a precaution against the worrying new Omicron variant.
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