One person has died after trucks collided and burst into flames just outside Bordertown shortly after South Australia shut its border to greater Melbourne over concerns about a Victorian COVID-19 outbreak.
Leading today’s breaking news from South Australia, the nation and abroad: one person is dead after a truck ran into another truck stopped in a long queue just outside Bordertown overnight, soon after SA’s move to bar access to arrivals from greater Melbourne prompted a dash to cross the border before midnight.
South Australian authorities intend to shut the state’s border to Greater Melbourne at midnight tonight, following the emergence of a new Victorian cluster.
Travellers from Greater Melbourne are now required to get tested for COVID-19 upon arriving in South Australia after a Victorian hotel quarantine guard tested positive, but travel between the states is still allowed.