Covid-19 contained

South Australia and Queensland will remove their travel restrictions on Sunday and Monday respectively.

It comes after NSW reported 11 days without a locally acquired infection.

About 180 cases were tied to the Sydney cluster, which emerged just before Christmas and prompted nationwide travel bans on the city's residents.

"Credit to New South Wales. They got on top of their cases," said Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk on Thursday.

Loughman said losing the country's status as a Covid-19 free country was not important.

He said what mattered was how a country had the capacity and resources to contain a positive case.

RNZ Pacific reports the prime minister said ensuring the coronavirus did not spread to the rest of the population was also key.

Vanuatu recorded the Covid-19 case on 10 November.

Loughman said on Tuesday follow-up tests carried out at the Vila Central Hospital and a reconfirmation test from Australia all returned negative results for the virus.