Anyone arriving from NSW to Victoria on Friday will need a border pass and will then have to self-isolate for 14 days. Victorians who miss that deadline will be turned back at the border or forced into hotel quarantine.
Victorians are being told if they try to cross the border after midnight tonight, police will turn them back.
The message from the health dept is there is no capacity to put hundreds of people in hotel quarantine because they elected to come home late. Emma O Sullivan (@emma os) January 1, 2021
At Cann River, about 40km over the border in East Gippsland, Hop Inn Motel owner Barry Barker took 300 calls on New Year’s Eve from people looking for a place to stay. Calls were still coming in at 2am on Friday.