The Victorian coronavirus spike continues to trouble its neighbours, with a Melbourne man testing positive in NSW and South Australia deploying the military to help guard its border.
The southern state recorded 216 new cases on Saturday - a sixth consecutive day of triple digit rises - and brought the national death toll to 107 after a man in his 90s died.
One of seven new infections in NSW was a male in his 20s from Melbourne, who had towed his caravan up from Victoria on July 7. An Adelaide hostel was on Friday fined $5060 for failing to safely house four travellers from Victoria whose test results are still not known, while a truck driver in Bordertown is in quarantine after contact with two confirmed NSWThe number of confirmed cases across the country now stands at more than 9580, with two more cases in Queensland and two in Western Australia.
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