CROSS-border travel within the bubble can be done without a permit and for any reason from Monday.
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However, the lockdown in Albury means that city's residents will not be able to enjoy the greater freedom that came into effect at 11.59pm on Sunday.
The Victorian government made public its ending of the permit rule on Sunday as it also restored Deniliquin-based Edward River Council to the bubble from Monday.
"It's great news, common sense has prevailed," its mayor Norm Brennan said.
The exclusion of the council from the bubble had stalled millions of dollars in building works, including a rice mill upgrade involving workers from Wodonga.
Murray Regional Tourism chief Mark Francis hopes the move will give a boost to businesses such as golf and bowls clubs in NSW that had shutdown because Victoria bubble residents were unable to access them.
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"It's part of a longer term plan for us, to have the border bubble open, then the rest of regional Victoria and then metropolitan Melbourne," he said.
Mr Francis said he hoped a Victorian road map outlined on Sunday would result in holiday bookings starting to roll in from late October for summer breaks.
Meanwhile, no new Albury COVID cases were reported on Sunday by Murrumbidgee Local Health District [MLHD] after one was added on Saturday.
That person had ties to an Albury man found to have COVID last week and had been isolating.
No new exposure sites in Albury were listed on Sunday after Coles Lavington was confirmed as a site of concern on Saturday.
Three more coronavirus cases emerged across the MLHD and several new exposure sites were identified in the Riverina late on Sunday evening.
A previously-announced venue of concern initially listed as a casual contact site was also upgraded to a close contact site after further investigations overnight.
It comes as four people from Young are being treated for COVID-19 in Wagga Base Hospital, Albury and Hilltops residents endure another lockdown, and fragments of COVID-19 were discovered in sewage surveillance in Griffith and Balranald at the weekend.
The MLHD revealed two men and a woman from the Hilltops local government area have been diagnosed with the virus late on Sunday.
Extra testing is available on Monday in Young, Harden, Boorowa, Cootamundra, Temora and Albury, the MLHD advises.
People can get tested at the following locations, and appointments are not necessary unless specified:
- Albury - Lavington Hall (Dorevitch Pathology) - 9am to 5pm Monday to Thursday, 9am to 2pm Sunday
- Albury - Showground (DHM Pathology) - 8am to 1pm, Monday to Saturday
- Boorowa - Boorowa Hospital - 1pm to 3pm Monday
- Cootamundra - Cootamundra Hospital, 11am to 1pm Monday, call 1800 831 099 to pre-register
- Harden - Murrumburrah-Harden Hospital, 1pm to 3pm
- Temora - Temora Hospital, 9.30am to 11.30am, call 1800 831 099 to preregister
- Young - Town Hall, Boorowa Street - 10am to 4pm, call 1800 831 099 to pre-register and minimise delay, walk-ins accepted
- Young - Showground (Laverty Pathology) - 9am to 3.30pm
For additional testing locations go to www.mlhd.nsw.gov.au, or for help accessing a test call the Murrumbidgee COVID-19 Hotline 1800 831 099.
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