NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has issued a stern warning to border communities to not travel outside of their regions, and for people not to come into border areas.
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"I ask everybody in those border communities ... do not travel to other parts of NSW unless you absolutely have to," she said.
"If you are an Albury resident, we do not recommend you travelling to other parts of NSW, and if we feel, in the next few days, or as early as tomorrow, that we need to further protect the community, we will consider what we do north of Albury.
"If you live in a border community and you're a NSW resident, please do not travel outside of your border community at this time.
"When you have communities mixing with each other, crossing the border, it carries enormous risk.
"The government is considering what further action we take to make sure the bubble, as we call it, of those border communities are contained. Which could further compromise your ability to move freely.
"The border closure between NSW and Victoria cannot be compared to any other border closure around Australia."
Ms Gladys Berejiklian said her "strong warning" to people in NSW, including areas such as Wagga, was to not travel to border communities unless they "absolutely have to".
She also said border people on should not be travelling outside of their local area.
"We can't control what's happened on the other side of the border and I've already had advice this morning that [there is] at least one person from Wodonga who has the virus, we're still awaiting details," she said.
"We don't know if that [case] has been contact-traced, we don't know if that person has exposed others, because we don't control things on that side of the border.
"If you are a Victorian and you have got a permit, your permit is only very strictly for that border community."
Ms Berejiklian said that it was "highly probable" people from the Border could cause a spike in NSW if they travelled outside of the Albury-Wodonga region, and that her government was prepared to make things harder for people to move across the border.
"It's either to make the permits more difficult to attain, or else have some type of police checkpoint north of those border communities to prevent interaction between those border communities and the rest of NSW," she said.
"I do want to put everybody on notice. The probability we will have to be tougher on those border communities is extremely high.
"Whilst we've allowed these permits, whilst we've allowed a degree of flexibility until this point, do not assume this will continue. We are monitoring this situation every few hours."
Eight new cases of COVID-19 have been diagnosed across NSW since yesterday.
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A teenager from Victoria holidaying in Merimbula has been advised they have tested positive.
They were not from a hotspot in Melbourne, and they undertook testing before coming to NSW and were advised the test result was negative.
After they had arrived, they were told the 'negative' test was an error and they did in fact have the virus.
They are isolating in Merimbula, with no other contact by the family in the community except for at the Tathra Hotel.
Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant said investigations were continuing into the two cases in Albury.
"I'm very pleased with the community response - we had a large number of people presenting for testing," she said.
NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller said drivers who have come from postcodes "of threat" from the virus have been turned around at the border closure.
"Outside of that, the permit system is working," he said.
There will be extra checkpoints for people with Victorian plates who are seen by NSW Police outside of border areas.
