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ACT residents still have free movement across the country after several hard borders between states were re-established due to coronavirus outbreaks. There are long lines of cars moving slowly at the NSW-Victorian border as the southern state is set to close the border to all of NSW from 11.59pm on Friday. The decision came after South Australia re-established its hard border with NSW, from 12.01am on Friday. Canberrans can still drive to Victoria or South Australia, provided they take the most direct route available and don’t take any unnecessary stops. ACT residents who travel to greater Sydney are required to quarantine for 14 days upon return. Residents of greater Sydney are cut off from every state and territory after the Northern Territory revised its public health orders to ban Sydneysiders on Thursday. As well, Western Australia re-established its hard border with Victoria, where a COVID-19 outbreak reached eight people on Thursday. The federal government had aimed for a fully open Australia by Christmas, initially dashed by the COVID-19 outbreak on Sydney’s northern beaches. That cluster jumped by five cases on Thursday to 144 infections, while a new cluster in inner-west Sydney’s Croydon now numbers nine people. NSW reported 10 new local virus cases on Thursday, and Victoria five. South Australia Premier Steven Marshall said while new restrictions had adverse effects on the national economy, a larger spread of the virus would be devastating. Western Australia acting Premier Roger Cook also admitted the “timing is terrible”. A limit of 15 visitors has been established for Victorian households, as well as mandatory mask usage at all indoor venues. “We always knew there would be cases and clusters,” Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews posted on Facebook on Thursday. “We have plans and systems in place to deal with precisely this scenario – and those are already well under way.” READ MORE: Meanwhile, visitors to indoor gatherings across Greater Sydney have been reduced from 10 to five. Mask usage is yet to be mandated in NSW despite its two clusters. The ongoing outbreak prompted NSW chief health officer Kerry Chant to issue a grim warning that “we are never going back to normal”. “COVID potentially will change our lives at all times … for literally years to come, years,” Dr Chant told reporters on Thursday. With AAP
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ACT residents still have free movement across the country after several hard borders between states were re-established due to coronavirus outbreaks.
There are long lines of cars moving slowly at the NSW-Victorian border as the southern state is set to close the border to all of NSW from 11.59pm on Friday.
The decision came after South Australia re-established its hard border with NSW, from 12.01am on Friday.
ACT residents who travel to greater Sydney are required to quarantine for 14 days upon return.
Residents of greater Sydney are cut off from every state and territory after the Northern Territory revised its public health orders to ban Sydneysiders on Thursday.
As well, Western Australia re-established its hard border with Victoria, where a COVID-19 outbreak reached eight people on Thursday.
The federal government had aimed for a fully open Australia by Christmas, initially dashed by the COVID-19 outbreak on Sydney’s northern beaches.
That cluster jumped by five cases on Thursday to 144 infections, while a new cluster in inner-west Sydney’s Croydon now numbers nine people.
NSW reported 10 new local virus cases on Thursday, and Victoria five.
South Australia Premier Steven Marshall said while new restrictions had adverse effects on the national economy, a larger spread of the virus would be devastating.
Western Australia acting Premier Roger Cook also admitted the “timing is terrible”.
A limit of 15 visitors has been established for Victorian households, as well as mandatory mask usage at all indoor venues.
“We always knew there would be cases and clusters,” Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews posted on Facebook on Thursday.
“We have plans and systems in place to deal with precisely this scenario – and those are already well under way.”
Meanwhile, visitors to indoor gatherings across Greater Sydney have been reduced from 10 to five.
Mask usage is yet to be mandated in NSW despite its two clusters.
The ongoing outbreak prompted NSW chief health officer Kerry Chant to issue a grim warning that “we are never going back to normal”.
“COVID potentially will change our lives at all times … for literally years to come, years,” Dr Chant told reporters on Thursday.
