Prime Minister Scott Morrison has agreed to cap international arrivals after state premiers raised concerns about stretched hotel quarantine systems.
Australia will reduce the number of international flights entering the country to ease pressure on hotel quarantine amid Melbourne's coronavirus outbreak.
States have urged the federal government to slow the pace of international arrivals as hotel capacity is stretched. Melbourne will re-enter lockdown for six weeks at midnight on Wednesday, putting five million people under stay-at-home orders., with a further three in the ACT linked to the Melbourne infection spike.
"We're all Victorians now because we're all Australians and that's where the challenge is right now."
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