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If returning Victorians arrive after midnight on Monday, they will be placed into hotel quarantine for 14 days.
“The rest of New South Wales remains a green zone,” Mr Andrews said. “While there is a concentration of those cases in the northern beaches local government area, there is transmission beyond that part of Sydney and there are a number of significant exposure sites where infectious people have been in the Sydney CBD.
“It is based on the best of public health advice. It is proportionate to a deteriorating set of circumstances in Greater Sydney.
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“Experiences in other states and certainly in other parts of the world show us that we have to be vigilant, every one of us.
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Premier Daniel Andrews has closed the border to visitors from Sydney, given Victorian residents until 11.59pm Monday to get home or face two weeks of hotel quarantine, and will establish police checkpoints along the southern side of the border for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began.
Throwing Christmas holiday plans into chaos, Mr Andrews has dispatched 700 police and military personnel to enforce the border lockdown, which will begin at 11.59pm on Sunday.
He also requested 200 to 300 ADF troops, but Canberra sources said the Morrison government had not responded to his request on Sunday evening, and it could take two or three days to assess the need.
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Premier of the Australian state of Victoria, Daniel Andrews, has closed the border to visitors from Sydney, given Victorian residents until 11.59pm Monday to get home or face two weeks of hotel quarantine, and will establish police checkpoints along the southern side of the border for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began. Throwing Christmas holiday plans into chaos, Andrews has dispatched 700 police and military personnel to enforce the border lockdown, which will begin at 11.59pm on Sunday (local time).
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Premier Daniel Andrews said he feared the outbreak in Sydney was set to expand beyond the northern beaches.