Jacinta Allan provides a COVID-19 update and comments on border closure

Asked if she was concerned NSW would again close its border to Victoria given the Holiday Inn outbreak, Ms Allan did not answer directly.

It followed South Australia's decision to close their border to Victoria and Queensland's decision to bar entry to anyone who has visited a hotspot in Melbourne.

"Every state, as in deed Victoria has done on previous occasions, every state will act based on the advice of its public health officials and what it feels is in the best interest of keeping its community safe," Ms Allan said.

It came as Victoria recorded two new locally acquired cases linked to the Holiday Inn outbreak, taking the stat'es total to 17 cases.

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Speaking of the South Australian border residents Ms Allan said she understand they're frustrated.

"They've lived with border closures over the course of 2020," she said.

"We all desperately wished when the clock struck midnight on New Year's Eve on 2020 that we will see the back of this virus but we haven't.

"We know it's a difficult and dangerous virus. that it's mutating, that various strains are more infectious than previous strains, and that means we need to fight and take all the necessary steps to fight this virus."

Prime Minister Scott Morrison said he was an advocate of the 'hotspot' approach to border management which kept states open to all bar those in regions of risk.