CROSS border travel within the bubble can be done without a permit and for any reason from Monday.
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However, the lockdown in Albury means that city's residents will not be able to enjoy the greater freedom.
The Victorian government made public its ending of the permit rule on Sunday as it also restored Deniliquin-based Edward River Council to the bubble from Monday.
"It's great news, common sense has prevailed," its mayor Norm Brennan said.
The exclusion of the council from the bubble had stalled millions of dollars in building works, including a rice mill upgrade involving workers from Wodonga.
Murray Regional Tourism chief Mark Francis hopes the move will give a boost to businesses such as golf and bowls clubs in NSW that had shutdown because Victoria bubble residents were unable to access them.
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"It's part of a longer term plan for us, to have the border bubble open, then the rest of regional Victoria and then metropolitan Melbourne," he said.
Mr Francis said he hoped a Victorian road map outlined on Sunday would result in holiday bookings starting to roll in from late October for summer breaks.
Meanwhile, no new Albury COVID cases were reported on Sunday by Murrumbidgee Local Health District after one was added on Saturday.
That person had ties to an Albury man found to have COVID last week and had been isolating.