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Melbourne welcomes first international flight in five months
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COVID-19 | Australia’s second-largest city welcomed its first international passenger flight in five months today, an arrival that will test the state of Victoria’s revamped hotel quarantine system.

Australia has since March closed its borders to non-citizens, but airports serving Melbourne, Victoria’s capital, stopped accepting any arrivals in late June after an outbreak of Covid-19 that begun at two hotels where arrivals were quarantining...


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