Victorian premier Dan Andrews announces Covid lockdown – as it happened

New Victorian stage 4 restrictions will take effect from midnight until midnight Wednesday; NSW to keep border to Victoria open. This blog is now closed

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7.16am GMT

And, breathe. That was quite a day to end the week on. Here's a quick summary of everything that went down today:

6.52am GMT

International flights to Melbourne have also been paused, as per a statement from the Victorian government:

As part of the circuit breaker action taken today, we have paused all international passenger flights from tomorrow - excluding those already in transit.

We know this will be difficult news for people who are overseas and want to get home but our focus right now has to be taking this short, sharp action in response to this outbreak.