New South Wales health authorities are urgently contacting all passengers and crew from a Melbourne to Sydney flight after a customer tested positive to coronavirus.
Jetstar Flight JQ510 left Melbourne at 11am on 27 September and one passenger is believed to have flown while infectious.
The passenger was a traveller returning from Victoria, who tested positive on day two of hotel quarantine, NSW Health said in an emailed alert on Friday.
A passenger is believed to have flown while infectious with coronavirus on Jetstar flight JQ510 that left Melbourne at 11am on 27 September bound for Sydney
Most passengers are already in hotel quarantine, however health authorities are urgently contacting 47 passengers with special permits or quarantine exemptions including crew.
Those deemed close contacts are advised to get tested immediately and isolate themselves for 14 days even if the test result is negative.
The news came as Prime Minister Scott Morrison issued a joint statement with five senior ministers announcing Australia would establish a safe travel zone with New Zealand.
Passengers arriving at Sydney's Charles Kingsford Smith Airport in July. A returned traveller is believed to have flown while infectious and is now in hotel quarantine
The Jetstar check-in area at domestic departures in Sydney's Charles Kingsford Smith Airport in August. People travelling from Melbourne to Sydney must go into hotel quarantine however there were 47 exemptions on the affected flight including crew
Passengers from New Zealand can travel to Australia, quarantine-free from Friday, October 16, as long as they've not been in a coronavirus hotspot during the previous 14 days, the statement said.
New Zealand had no known hotspots as of Friday according to the Australian Government definition of a three-day rolling average of three locally acquired cases per day.
'Any state or territory that imposes travel restrictions consistent with the Australian Government-defined hotspot ... will be able to participate in the Safe Travel Zone,' the joint statement said.
Victoria recorded seven new cases of coronavirus on Friday, increasing the state's total to 20,191 of which 261 are active infections, the Department of Health and Human Services said on Friday.
Another two Victorians died bringing the state's death toll to 802.
New South Wales reported another four coronavirus cases in the 24 hours to 8pm Thursday, all of whom were returned travellers in hotel quarantine.
NSW has only recorded one new locally acquired case over the last 10 days.
The state's total now sits at 4227 with 53 deaths according to Federal Health Department figures on Friday.
