“Well, you can’t cross the border freely. Until midnight tonight, we‘ve imposed an extra restriction on Melburnians so nobody from Melbourne or its surrounds can cross the border today.”
Asked whether she was worried about new cases “slipping in” before midnight tonight, she said: the purpose of leaving an extra 24 hours before the restrictions come into effect was to allow regional Victorians to cross the border.
It comes after Nationals Senator Bridget McKenzie said she is concerned regional communities will be hit the hardest by the recent decision to close the NSW-Victoria border tonight. With South Australia also having aborted plans to re-open its borders, from midnight tonight’s Victoria’s population of 6.3 million will be locked in.
“There’s a lot of confusion and anger around a community that really sees itself as two cities, one economy, and one community,” she added. It came after Victoria recorded a record 127 cases yesterday, including 16 in the public housing towers that have been locked down. Residents in at least 36 suburbs deemed to be “hot spots” were put into a separate lockdown, but can still leave home for work, school, exercise and essential shopping.
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