Australia: Melbourne passengers to be met with security blitz at Sydney Airport

Passengers from Melbourne will face a security blitz at Sydney Airport after at least five travellers from Victoria's coronavirus hotspots were detected after flying in Thursday. NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard also revealed a woman caught the train from Melbourne to Sydney after she was swabbed for COVID-19 but had not yet received her results. Hazzard said he had asked the Victorian government to start screening people at Melbourne airports and train stations to ensure people from outbreak areas weren't attempting to travel to NSW. "It would help greatly," he said. Victoria recorded 77 new cases as well as its biggest single-day increase in community transmissions since the start of the outbreak. Lockdowns came into effect in 10 Melbourne postcodes where there has been a disproportionate increase in recent coronavirus cases. NSW Health said there were eight new cases in the state, all returned travellers in hotel quarantine, taking the total to 3211.<br/>