The NSW government has held firm on its pledge to significantly ease COVID-19 restrictions in NSW, despite a sharp rise in case numbers amid super-spreading events.
From Wednesday, for the first time in three months, the same set of rules will apply to the vaccinated and the unvaccinated in NSW.
The use of QR code check-ins will be scaled back and masks required only in certain high-risk settings.
There's no cap on visitors in homes, to hospitality venues, or on numbers for outdoor public gatherings.
The unvaccinated, who've remained in quasi-lockdown since restrictions eased for the vaccinated in October, can return to hospitality venues and non-essential retail.
The lifting of restrictions - long-planned for December 15 - comes just as case numbers spike to a two-month high.
Some 804 people tested positive for COVID-19 in NSW in the 24 hours to 8pm on Monday, a 50 per cent increase on the previous day.
NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet (pictured) on Monday night promised 'no more lockdowns' in the state
Daily Mail Australia takes a look at the incoming mask rules for Australia's two biggest states below.
New South WalesFrom Wednesday, masks will only be required on public transport and planes, at airports and for indoors front-of-house hospitality staff who are not fully vaccinated.
Masks will still be strongly encouraged in settings where you cannot social distance, but will no longer required in outdoor settings.
Covid Safe QR code check-ins will only be required for hospitals, aged and disability care facilities, gyms, places of worship, funerals or memorial services, personal services (including sex services), pubs, small bars and registered clubs, nightclubs, strip clubs, sex on premises and indoor music festivals with over 1,000 people.
The changes also mean there will be no limit to the number of visitors you can have in your home.
Remember shopping without masks (pictured)? You can experience it again later this week
There will also be no limit to the number of people allowed at outdoor public gatherings.
All visitors to residents in aged care facilities and disability homes are permitted in line with their policies.
Non-critical retail will reopen to all and there will be no person limit for personal services - including hairdressers, spas, beauty and nail salons, tattoo and massage parlours.
Sex services premises are also allowed to open.
For those who can't remember shopping without masks (pictured), this is what it looks like
Victoria's state of emergency officially ends at 11.59pm on Wednesday, and will instead be replaced with the new pandemic laws which carry 'specific legal requirements' that prevent restriction changes being made public before going through 'proper processes'.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews (pictured) has not yet announced what changes will come in
