Australian border closure sparked by COVID-19 outbreak creates chaos

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State line between New South Wales and Victoria is scheduled to close on Tuesday for the first time in 100 years

This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.Australian officials scrambled on Tuesday to implement a travel permit system before closing the busy border between its two most populous states to contain a coronavirus outbreak in the city of Melbourne.

“There will be queues, there will be frustration, there will be lots of questions but we’re doing this to keep everybody safe,” NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on Tuesday. The border closure was announced on Monday after a recent surge in COVID-19 cases in Melbourne, the Victorian capital, which prompted authorities to reinstate strict social-distancing orders in more than 30 suburbs and put nine public housing towers into complete lockdown.

 

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