The Department of Home Affairs have released information on 11 September 2020 under Freedom of Information request (FOI) providing statistics of inbound and outbound travel exemptions from the period between 20 March 2020 and 20 August 2020.
During this period, the Commissioner of Australian Border Force (ABF) has approved 15,801 inbound exemption requests and 36,426 outbound exemption requests during the travel restrictions due to Covid-19 pandemic.
The Department has also released information that 4,627 inward exemption requests have been approved by the ABF Commissioner between 01 August 2020 and 20 August 2020.
