Australia has avoided the high casualty numbers of other countries to the Covid-19 pandemic, which has killed 544,055 people globally, but an outbreak in Melbourne prompted the state of Victoria to impose "self isolate" orders for the city's estimated five million.
"We must continue to follow those social distancing protocols all around Australia, even in states or territories where the number of cases is effectively zero," Mr Morrison told reporters in Canberra. South Australia also closed its border with Victoria. "We're definitely at a different stage of the pandemic," NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian told reporters in Sydney.
Tasmania itself has not reported a new case in nearly eight weeks. Western Australia state had closed its border to the rest of Australia indefinitely before the latest outbreak in Victoria.
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