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COVID Victoria live updates: SA border closed, restrictions explained
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Victoria will instate a hard border with South Australia from midnight on Thursday.
The closure will last for 48 hours before a permit system will come into effect from on midnight Saturday night.
Under the hard border only freight drivers and those with medical or other emergency needs will be able to pass across the border from South Australia into Victoria.
Premier Daniel Andrews said the new measures were taken as an “abundance of caution” due to ongoing community…
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