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Ethan James

Tasmania to fully open border with Sydney

Tasmania will open to Sydney after no NSW community cases in the past 14 days, Dr Mark Veitch says. (AAP)

Tasmania will lift coronavirus border restrictions for travellers from 10 Greater Sydney local government areas on Sunday.

Visitors who have been in the regions will no longer be forced to quarantine from 12.01am AEDT.

It means the island state will be open to all of Australia.

Tasmanian Public Health Director Mark Veitch said the decision was made based on the absence of NSW community cases in the past fortnight.

"(This is) along with extensive contact tracing and testing undertaken by NSW health authorities," he said in a statement on Friday.

Anyone quarantining in Tasmania because they had been in the 10 regions will be allowed to leave isolation on Sunday.

The areas are Blacktown, Burwood, Canada Bay, Canterbury-Bankstown, Cumberland, Fairfield, Inner West, Liverpool, Parramatta and Strathfield.

Tasmania has gone 50 days without recording a COVID-19 infection, with the state's last case of community transmission in May.

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