THE NSW Premier has urged border residents to be "in a state of high alert" but stopped short of adopting further restrictions.
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Gladys Berejiklian has also suggested the shutdown of the Victorian frontier was not the same as other closures around Australia.
The Liberal Party leader said on Thursday morning that based on the lack of evidence of spread of the coronavirus in Albury there would be no immediate changes to existing border checkpoint measures.
Her stance came after hinting to reporters on Wednesday that there could be further tightening of restrictions for those in border communities and a possible bubble for those along the Murray River in NSW.
"When there is a spike anywhere else in the nation you always have to be concerned about what it means for your residents, especially given both the proximity to Victoria and also because Victorians and NSW residents have so much interaction with each other, the 55 border crossings that obviously makes us on high alert," Ms Berejiklian said.
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"At this point in time there is no evidence or no advice to me to suggest that we need to change anything we are doing regarding restrictions, although we are monitoring what happens in those border communities with the seeding.
"We do need to consider what happens north of those border communities, at this stage even though we are keeping that option on the table it is not something we need to progress to at this point in time."
Ms Berejiklian stressed the need to assess the potential seeding or community transmission of coronavirus cases and urged anyone with even the "mildest symptoms" of the disease to undergo testing.
"We won't know for a few weeks until all that seeding, the potential seeding, has been what we call 'flushed out', so we won't know for a few weeks to make sure there hasn't been any level of that community transmission kind of bubbling away under the surface," Ms Berejiklian said.
She said large numbers had been tested in Albury in the wake of a pop-up clinic being set at Lavington's Mirambeena community centre this week.
"I was heartened to know that in the last two days we've had more than 400 Albury residents come forward and get tested which is fantastic," Ms Berejiklian said.
She praised border residents for adapting to the border shutdown.
"Can I especially thank those border communities, it's easy to roll the words 'border community' off the tongue but for tens of thousands of residents it's been an enormous inconvenience," Ms Berejiklian said.
"I want to thank them for their understanding and patience and please know that the permit system we've established, all the resources we're putting there, are really to keep those communities intact.
"I haven't seen that happen before at any of the other border closures that have occurred around Australia.
"Our aim has been irrespective of whether they're Victorians or people from NSW we know they act as one community and our purpose has been to keep those communities intact....and to reduce the stress on those communities."