Virgin Australia has cancelled flights in and out of Melbourne as Victoria braces to be plunged into a fourth lockdown. It comes as a Covid cluster in Melbourne s north grew to 26 on Thursday.
New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian has called out Victorians seeking to beat their state s lockdown by rushing to cross the border in their cars and taken aim at the locked-down state over its contact tracing system.
From midnight Thursday Victoria will be in a circuit breaker lockdown until June 3 in an effort to prevent the spread of Covid after the Victorian Health Department listed 79 exposure sites - with more expected to follow.
Berejiklian questioned the effectiveness of Victoria s contact tracing system and said recent history showed positive Covid case numbers would rise exponentially if not quickly contained.
New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian has called out Victorians seeking to beat their state s lockdown by rushing to cross the border in their cars