How Victoria’s coronavirus outbreak spread from a Melbourne restaurant to Leongatha

In less than two days, an outbreak of coronavirus in Victoria has prompted the closure of the state’s border with New South Wales and seen Western Australia slam its border shut to Victorians.

Health authorities are urging Victorians right across the state to get tested with even the slightest symptoms, with one case already detected in Gippsland.

How did the outbreak begin?

Contact tracers are still working to find the “index case” that triggered the outbreak, but all 10 of the outbreak cases detected so far can be traced back to a restaurant dinner on December 21.

Two separate groups of diners sat down at adjacent tables at the Smile Buffalo Thai restaurant in Black Rock, in Melbourne’ south-east, for a meal.

Three of those people have…