Victoria’s coronavirus border keeps family apart from partner of Kelly Foster, police officer killed in NSW whirlpool

The family of a grieving man whose partner died trying to rescue a student from a whirlpool say they are unable to be with him in New South Wales due to Victoria’s hard coronavirus border.

Senior Constable Kelly Foster and the international student died after being pulled into the water while canyoning in the Blue Mountains on the weekend.

Her colleagues remembered Senior Constable Foster as “a well-respected and well-liked member of the police force”.

Her long-term partner was left traumatised and shocked by the sudden death, his sister Nicole Potter said.

“My brother is a resident … there in the Blue Mountains. And most of my family, we’re all in Victoria, in country areas of Victoria,” Ms Potter told ABC Radio Melbourne.

“I’m just…