The order is in force from 12.01am on Tuesday, July 7.
The health department said: “This means they will only be able to enter NSW for very limited reasons, such as obtaining medical care, or fulfilling a legal obligation.”
“Come midnight tonight, for the next 24 hours, the hot spots will extend to all of Melbourne so nobody from Melbourne will be able to cross the border in the next 24 hours,” NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said on Monday.
“But come midnight tomorrow night, it will be all Victorians.”
The NSW-Victoria border will close from 12.01am on Wednesday, July 8.
“The requirement for NSW residents returning from Melbourne hot spots to self-isolate for 14 days will then be extended to anyone returning from Victoria. Heavy penalties and fines apply,” the health minister’s office said.
“Provisions will be in place for residents of border regions, such as Albury-Wodonga.”
Australia has recorded a total 8397 cases of COVID-19, with 3240 in New South Wales, 2660 in Victoria, 1067 in Queensland, 443 in South Australia, 621 in Western Australia, 228 in Tasmania, 108 in the Australian Capital Territory and 30 in the Northern Territory.
Australia’s coronavirus death toll is 106.
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Security guards working at a Melbourne hotel when it was housing travellers in quarantine were allegedly paid in cash despite asking for their wage to be linked to their tax-file number, The Herald Sun reports.
The allegations, involving security guards that worked at the Crown Promenade Hotel in March and April, are outlined in three written statements seen by the publication.
One guard claimed he was given $8000 to distribute between nine colleagues without pay slips or superannuation contributions.
Ten healthcare workers have been diagnosed with COVID-19 in the past week in Victoria.
This includes three new cases in staff from separate hospitals, among the 127 infections announced on Monday, The Age reports.
The Department of Health and Human Services said one case was a healthcare worker at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, considered "a close contact of a known case".
The hospital said the case is a nurse in the acute medical unit.
A healthcare worker at the Royal Melbourne Hospital tested positive. Picture: David Caird
The DHHS said another was a healthcare worker at the Alfred Hospital.
"It's believed the worker attended the site while infectious," it said in a statement.
"Contact tracing is under way and the department is working closely with the hospital to ensure all appropriate public health actions are taken."
A healthcare worker at the Joan Kirner Women's and Children's Hospital at Sunshine Hospital has also reportedly tested positive for COVID-19, along with seven in the Northern Hospital emergency department.
There were 140 new cases of COVID-19 recorded across Australia in the 24 hours to 9pm on Monday, according to federal health department figures.
Of these, 127 were in Victoria – the largest daily increase in the state since the pandemic began.
There were 10 cases recorded in New South Wales and three in Western Australia but all 13 diagnosed are travellers in hotel quarantine.
"The new cases are all returned overseas travellers who flew into Perth on July 2," WA Health said.
Later on Monday, NSW Health said it was investigating after two suspected cases of COVID-19 returned positive results on preliminary testing in Albury.
The Hume Highway in Albury near the NSW-Victoria border. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Simon Dallinger
"Further testing is underway while, as a precaution, close contacts have been identified and placed in isolation," the health department said.
"One suspected case had recently travelled to Melbourne and had returned prior to hot spot travel restrictions coming into force.
"NSW Health urges residents in the Albury area who develop even the mildest symptoms to come forward for testing."
A pop-up clinic will be open at the Mirambeena Community Centre, 19 Martha Mews in Lavington from 9.30am on Tuesday "to ensure additional testing capacity is available".
There were no new cases of the coronavirus recorded in Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, the Northern Territory or the Australian Capital Territory on Monday.
The country's death toll rose to 106 after two men, one aged in his 60s and the other aged in his 90s, died in Victoria during the reporting period.
The Tuesday morning order from the NSW government affects residents in any of these 36 Local Government Areas in Greater Melbourne:
- Banyule City
- Bayside City
- Boroondara City
- Brimbank City
- Cardinia Shire
- Casey City
- Darebin City
- Frankston City
- Glen Eira City
- Greater Dandenong City
- Greater Geelong City
- Hobsons Bay City
- Hume City
- Kingston City
- Knox City
- Macedon Ranges Shire
- Manningham City
- Maribyrnong City
- Maroondah City
- Melbourne City
- Melton City
- Mitchell Shire
- Monash City
- Moonee Valley City
- Moorabool Shire
- Moreland City
- Mornington Peninsula Shire
- Murrindindi Shire
- Nillumbik Shire
- Port Phillip City
- Stonnington City
- Whitehorse City
- Whittlesea City
- Wyndham City
- Yarra City
- Yarra Ranges Shire
Source: NSW Government
NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard amended the COVID-19 interstate hot spot order on Monday to include residents from Greater Melbourne's 36 local government areas.
The order is in force from 12.01am on Tuesday, July 7.
The health department said: “This means they will only be able to enter NSW for very limited reasons, such as obtaining medical care, or fulfilling a legal obligation.”
“Come midnight tonight, for the next 24 hours, the hot spots will extend to all of Melbourne so nobody from Melbourne will be able to cross the border in the next 24 hours,” NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said on Monday.
“But come midnight tomorrow night, it will be all Victorians.”
Victorian cases by local government area on Monday. Pictures: DHHS
The border between NSW and Victoria will shut from 12.01am on Wednesday, July 8.
“The requirement for NSW residents returning from Melbourne hotspots to self-isolate for 14 days will then be extended to anyone returning from Victoria. Heavy penalties and fines apply,” the health minister’s office said.
“Provisions will be in place for residents of border regions, such as Albury-Wodonga.”
There have been 2660 cases of COVID-19 recorded in Victoria included 127 new cases announced on Monday.
The interactive daily report from Victoria's Department of Health and Human Services is available here.
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