Residents and workers eligible for coronavirus closure exemptions can now apply for a permit to cross the Victoria and New South Wales border ahead of its planned shut down. 9News
Coronavirus: Melbourne to be cut off from the rest of Australia in race to control outbreak 'more significant than anyone anticipated'
It comes as authorities today announced a large-scale police operation put in place to monitor border crossings, however the state border was left unpatrolled despite residents from Greater Melbourne being banned from entering as of 12.01am today.Video earlier showed cars and trucks streaming into NSW freely from Victoria at the Albury-Wodonga border this morning, with no border enforcement or police in sight.
Queues of residents living on the border were this morning seen flooding Service NSW in a last-minute scramble to change their licence to avoid being locked out of NSW.
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