Victoria has recorded no new cases of coronavirus and no deaths for the 18th day in a row.
There were more than 17,000 tests yesterday, up almost 11,000 from the previous day. There are still three active cases in the state - two of those people remain in hospital.
It comes as one new case has been confirmed overnight in a cluster in South Australia, bringing the total number of infections to 20.
South Australia's Health Minister said the outbreak, now referred to as the Parafield Cluster, included 17 members of one family, two security guards and one close contact of the family.
Yesterday Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory all declared South Australia a hot spot.
South Australia implemented new emergency restrictions overnight including closing gyms, while international flights carrying returning Australians have been suspended for a week.
Travellers disembarking flights from Adelaide at Melbourne's Tullamarine airport will be interviewed by health officials but would only be required to be tested if they had come from specific areas, Victoria's Deputy Chief Health Officer Allen Cheng confirmed on Monday.
"Temperature and symptom checking will be undertaken with these travellers," he said in a statement.
"They will be asked to isolate and get tested if they are coming from an area of risk identified by the South Australian Government. If they refuse to get tested they will be treated as a close contact and be asked to self-isolate for 14 days."
It is still unclear as to what checks are in place for travellers entering Victoria via the land border.
Yesterday Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews implied security guards may have played a role in the transmission of the virus from the hotel into the South Australian community.
But Mr Wade on Tuesday said although public health authorities were "confident" that Adelaide's Peppers Hotel was the source, the first case had still not conclusively been identified.
"Three of the staff at the medi-hotel have tested positive, but one of those people is a back-of-house person who would have had negligible contact with residents," he told ABC Radio National's breakfast program.
Mr Wade said two of the infected family members who were aged care workers had only worked at a single facility - Anglicare SA aged care in Brompton - while infectious.
"We are yet to have a single case of COVID-19 amongst a resident of a residential aged care facility."
In response to the cluster, South Australia re-introduced strict controls on aged care workers limiting them to work at one site and to wearing masks when social distancing isn’t possible.
The rule on single worksites for aged care workers had been in place in South Australia throughout the period of Victoria’s second wave and had only been relaxed last week before the current cluster emerged.
Aged care infections led to the bulk of COVID-19 deaths in Victoria - 652 of the state's 819 deaths were linked to nursing homes.
- With Josh Dye
Rachael Dexter is a breaking news reporter at The Age.
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