Tasmania is dropping travel restrictions with regional Victoria but will maintain a hard border with metropolitan Melbourne.
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The change comes into effect from 11.59pm on Thursday, island state Premier Peter Gutwein announced.
Thirty-one local government areas in Melbourne remain high risk, meaning only essential travellers from the city are allowed to enter Tasmania via a special permit.
"At this stage it is unlikely (Melbourne) will be downgraded to low risk until after the long weekend," Mr Gutwein said.
Melbourne comes out of a lockdown at midnight on Thursday, while regional Victoria will ease restrictions.
Tasmania's health authorities are working through whether people who arrive from regional Victoria by public transport through Melbourne will still be considered low risk.
"We've varied our approach depending on the risk at the time. Our preferred approach is that people travel with as little interaction with the population as possible," State Public Health Director Mark Veitch said.
People from regional Victoria who are quarantining in Tasmania will be allowed out at midnight on Thursday.
Authorities were on Thursday forced to issue a warning to a Tasmanian man who didn't disclose he had spent time in regional Victoria before arriving.
He was required to quarantine but spent time at a Hobart worksite on Tuesday and Wednesday before colleagues told him to leave.
Deputy State Controller Scott Tilyard said the man posed a very low risk to the community and has no coronavirus symptoms.
Some 130,000 Tasmanians, about 30 per cent of the island's adult population, have received at least their first COVID-19 vaccine, Mr Gutwein said.
He said the state stood ready to host additional AFL games if the league decided schedule changes were necessary.
Australian Associated Press