Tuesday, 07 Jul 2020 01:20 PM MYT
The state line between New South Wales and Victoria, which is highly porous and stretches hundreds of kilometres, is scheduled to close at 11.59 pm tonight for the first time in 100 years. People caught crossing the border without permission via any of the 55 roads that are heavily used by commuters, school children and road freight, or several river and wilderness crossings, will face penalties including a fine of A$11,000 and six months imprisonment.
The border closure was announced yesterday in response to a surge in Covid-19 cases in Melbourne, the Victorian capital, which prompted authorities this week to reinstate strict social-distancing orders in more than 30 suburbs and put nine public housing towers into complete lockdown. The closure of the border is a blow to Australia's hopes of cushioning the fall as the country heads into its first recession in nearly three decades, thanks to social distancing restrictions that were imposed in March and have been largely lifted.For businesses on the border, which last closed during the Spanish flu pandemic in 1919, it also poses an immediate logistics headache.
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