Quarantine-free travel between Australia and the South Island of New Zealand is ready to resume, Australia’s Chief Medical Official Professor Paul Kelly says. He said NSW and Victoria have agreed to allow trips to restart from midnight on Tuesday given there has not been a COVID-19 case in the South Island since last year. “There is very good work being done to stop people from the North Island going to the South Island, so that is not a risk,” Kelly told reporters in Canberra on Sunday. “We hope to allow anyone who has been in the South Island of New Zealand whether Australian, New Zealanders, or other nationalities, as long as they have been there for 14 days, to come in quarantine free.” The so-called green lane travel bubble between Australia and New Zealand was halted earlier this year after the Delta variant of COVID-19 hit the southeast of Australia. …