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NSW authorities are alarmed by a plunge in the number of people checking in to venues fearing the lack of compliance would complicate the control of a new coronavirus outbreak in the state.
NSW remained the only jurisdiction not to close its border to Victoria as the southern state went into a seven day-circuit breaker lockdown after recording 12 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday. Instead, Victorian arrivals to NSW will be forced to isolate for seven days.
People were waiting about 200 minutes for COVID-19 testing in Melbourne on Thursday morning.
Credit:Wayne Taylor
The total number of cases linked to the Melbourne cluster is now 26 - including one in intensive care- with tracers managing at least 10,000 primary and secondary contacts after unknowingly infected persons visited AFL games and shopping centres.