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Border closes between two Australian states

Rebecca Noonan
Rebecca Noonan

06:14 7 Jul 2020


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The border between Australia's two most highly populated states has closed after Melbourne recorded its biggest one-day spike in Covid-19 cases.

The outbreak in the city has seen hundreds of people with the virus in the past two weeks - more than 95% of new Australian infections.

The last time the border of Victoria and New South Wales closed was during the Spanish flu pandemic, 100 years ago.


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