With ACT reopening on October 15 and NSW expected to reach its 70 per cent vaccination milestone on October 11, Mr Barr said he anticipated vaccinated people would be permitted to move more freely around NSW from that period.

Should public health directions align for vaccinated travellers post lockdown, ACT residents would be permitted to travel to Sydney and regional NSW when the state reaches its 80 per cent target.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has not provided a date for when that second milestone was expected.

A spokeswoman for NSW Health said there were too many factors that may determine when the 80 per cent double vaccination might happen.

With concerns raised over how residents of border towns would navigate the new directions, Mr Barr said he hoped postcodes with a standing exemption to travel to and from the ACT would not need proof of vaccination status to cross the border.

"But if you wanted to go further than those identified postcodes you would need to be vaccinated, is my understanding of the NSW rules," Mr Barr said. "How they are going to enforce that I don't know."

With talks still under way with health officials, Mr Barr said it was still unclear how ACT residents who had received one dose of the vaccine would be treated in NSW, a circumstance primarily affecting younger people.

Whether unvaccinated children under 12 could to travel to NSW was unknown and whether travel was permitted for children aged 12 to 15 due for their second dose in that period was also unclear, Mr Barr said.

"The best advice I can give today, because this hasn't been concluded yet, is that if you are unvaccinated, your travel is going to be more limited than if you are vaccinated," he said.

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Eurobodalla Shire Council Mayor Liz Innes said the region would welcome ACT residents when lockdown was lifted on October 15.

Ms Innes said both locations had high vaccination rates and low case numbers and lifting stay-at-home orders for ACT residents to coincide with NSW opening up was the logical path forward.

"I know effectively we are two different states, but we've got those really close ties, it just doesn't make sense not to," she said.

Ms Innes lives just outside of Batemans Bay, which reported two new cases of coronavirus on Wednesday and the death of a woman in her 70s.

The Eurobodalla Shire has been in lockdown since August 14, as it has battled to control an outbreak believed to be linked to an inmate released from Sydney's Parklea prison.

The outbreak has lead to a rush to get vaccinated, with the Eurobodalla reporting one of the highest uptakes in regional NSW.

Ms Innes said the shire's COVID outbreak meant residents knew how to respond and operate according to public health measures.

She said while lockdown's end was in the hands of health authorities, the tourism dependent community was growing weary of living under restrictions.

"It really is getting to that point where it's a little bit disheartening, but we are seeing incredible vaccination rates.

"Hopefully, if everybody continues to do the right thing we'll start to see those restrictions eased and we'll start to look at the possibility of having a semi normal or a new normal type of Christmas," Ms Innes said.

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