⁍ Travel between New Zealand and some states of Australia is possible before the end of the year, New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday.

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⁍ Plans for a travel ‘bubble’ between Australia and New Zealand has been in discussions for months as both nations slowed the spread of the coronavirus.

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⁍ As cases continue to decline in Australian regions, talks of a travel bubble with some states have been revived.

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⁍ New Zealand has only 59 active cases and 1,477 confirmed cases of COVID-19 so far, one of the lowest tally in the world.

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– For the first time in history, travelers from one country may be able to cross over to another. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says a “travel bubble” between Australia and New Zealand is “possible” after a resurgence of coronavirus, which has killed 872 people in Australia, Reuters reports. “What we would need to be assured of is that when Australia is saying, ‘OK, we’ve got a hotspot over here,’ that the border around that hotspot means that people aren’t able to travel into the states where we are engaging with in trans-Tasman travel,” she says. “We’ve been very satisfied with how New Zealand has been tracking, and how Australia has been tracking, and we’re pretty satisfied with how New Zealand is tracking now,” she adds, per the New Zealand Herald. The travel bubble was first floated months ago after a second wave of infections in Auckland, but it was put on hold when Australia reported 27,000 cases and 872 deaths, Reuters notes. New Zealand has only 59 active cases and 1,477 confirmed cases of coronavirus so far, one of the lowest tallies in the world. Some media reports on Monday also said the travel may initially be just one way with New Zealanders heading to Australia, and may be restricted to just travelers from New Zealand’s South Island, which has had no coronavirus cases for months. Victoria, Australia’s second most populous state and epicenter of the country’s COVID-19 outbreak, said on Sunday that it would ease social distancing restrictions as infections slow to fewer than 20 cases a day.