Any Victorian who has returned from Sydney and other areas of COVID-19 risk must get tested as Victoria recorded one new case from the cluster.
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There are 53 days without community transmission in Victoria, however a returned Victorian traveller acquired COVID-19 from the Northern beaches.
Close contacts are understood to be limited - the positive case is a 15-year-old from Moonee Valley who had visited high-risk exposure sites in Sydney and travelled home from Sydney on December 17.
There are no known exposure sites from that positive case "south of the Murray" according to Health Minister Martin Foley.
COVID-19 response commander Jeroen Weimar said all returning travellers must get tested.
He said there were 4000 permit applications from people returning from red zone yesterday, and DHHS currently had 300 close contacts from the NSW clusters that were being monitored for symptoms and isolation.
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"We did see some very busy scenes yesterday afternoon and into the evening at border crossings," he said.
"We did ensure ... people who were queueing at the border at midnight were able to proceed through.
"Now, anybody who is coming out of those areas, Victorian or otherwise, will not be able to go through our land border checkpoints, they will be turned back."
Seventeen people are in hotel quarantine who have arrived in airports without the right permits or who were people coming out of Sydney and not able to travel.
"From Midnight on Sunday night, if you're in Sydney you cannot come into Victoria unless you're a returning Victorian, from midnight last night, you cannot come from Sydney or Central Coast into this state, you will be turned back at the border," Mr Weimar said.