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Any NSW residents hoping to travel to Victoria for Christmas won t be able to do so without a permit after a mystery cluster in Sydney s northern beaches grew to 28 cases.
From midnight on Friday, anyone travelling to Victoria from the northern beaches will not be able to enter the state - while all other residents will need to apply for permission.
Travel permits will be issued on a traffic light system , Victorian Health Minister Martin Foley said on Friday.
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Under the system, the northern beaches region will be designated a red zone , greater Sydney an amber zone and the rest of the state a green zone .
Victorian Health Minister Martin Foley says the Government has learned from its mistakes
A parliamentary inquiry into the state s contact tracing system has found the Government was unwilling to invest in resources before the pandemic, and that the system was not fit to deal with case surges.
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