Residents in border towns will be largely unaffected by the changes that came into effect at 11.59pm on Sunday, with communities allowed to freely travel across state lines but must prove their identity by showing their driver’s licence.
Premier Daniel Andrews said his state’s public health team had spent the entire weekend weighing up closing the border to NSW, and on Sunday landed on banning non-Victorians from both NSW and the ACT.
“At this time, there is very little justification to consider the ACT as a COVID-affected jurisdiction that requires the highest level of travel restrictions ... We are asking all states to remove the restrictions on the ACT as soon as possible.” Shortly before the Victorian government announced its changes to the border arrangements, Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly was asked whether he believed it was appropriate and justified for Victoria to shut its doors to NSW entirely.
“Sometimes when you’re a cross-border resident, you’ll be travelling across the border four, five, six times a day depending on your industry,” Cr Poulton said. Of the 77 cases reported on Sunday, 39 were in Fairfield and nine were in the adjacent local government area of Canterbury-Bankstown. Two of the cases were in the City of Sydney, while Waverley also recorded two COVID-19 cases.
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