its 2 towns one on our side of the border which is the river murray river and but i very much all of the health services are on once are. a lot of the economic infrastructure on the other side so the travel between across the border between those 2 cities is routine they will be full of it put in place by the new south wales government minister my old we're used to seeing that comes with think. if they very efficiently if they allow them to that's one thing they not like home and they could be quite quite bad some of them would turn out there are a few key parts for us and for you to start to do very long border to more than 2000 people make this so. story just to try and make it work for indy has begun last testing for covert 19 in its largest city newly inaugurated president of east and a she me has indicated that he's taking the outbreak more seriously than his predecessor fewer than 200 infections have been reported but they're all face the truth number could be much higher as catherine sawyer reports. when balloon is president everest nation media declared coronavirus the bigges

it's to towns one on our border which is the river the murray river and but. all of the health services are on once are. a lot of the economic infrastructure on the other side so the travel between across the border between those 2 cities is routine it will be all of it put in place by the new south wales government minister so my olds we're used to seeing that come into work think. they are very efficient if they allow them to that's one thing they're not home and quite quite there some of them would turn out there to keep our border crossing to start to do very long border more than 2000 kilometers so. story just to try and make it work. well still ahead here on down to 01 of the booster of long time says u.s. universities could spell deportation so some foreign students. before the park will believe it's all just rehab students be used to the principal we'll have the details. and oh they're quite discussion of thunderstorms across southern regions of the united states some heavy rain as well across much of florida out across the west is a bit of a different

and as a border, i am on the new south wales side, this is the murray river, and just over here gci’ossjust over here across victoria, essentially, this is the twin city of wodonga. up until last night people were able, thousands of people were able, thousands of people were able to cross from one side of a bridge or a highway across the river into here in albury new south wales for work or to visit family or doctors' appointments. that is the proximity we are talking. people give you the two towns in the two different states as one different community with two cities. so today things are looking very different. hundreds of police and military personnel have been manning checkpoints, examining people's permits, which has been quite an issue for people to issue permanent —— permits overnight, turning people back if they don't have them, allowing people in. there has been a rush hour, long queues of cars for people to get in. we have been speaking to some local business owners here for example, who are quite worried about what that will mean for them. they have staff who live on the other

they are usually divided just by the murray river but no they are separated by police checkpoints andell us returned to lock down. sonia, tell us first year experience in these new stricter conditions? it is quite a change. i went to the board at several times a day, so for me my client meetings are there, medical appointments, it is really only a two—minute drive normally to get across the border. it what time of day. it can take up to an hour and a half to get over the border now. what is the nature of the checkpoints or restrictions are questions that you face as you move around? every single car is stopped, you have got to show you a license, you have got to show you a license, you have got to show you a license, you have got to have a permit and there are only certain residents are allowed to go across the border. there are other permit classes, such as essential workers and health care. simon, your experience in melbourne, it is getting stricter and stricter there as well? yes, even today there are rumours swirling around, they are moving from stage three restrictions to stage f

to work or to go to school orfor over the murray river to work or to go to school or for what mightts? yes, but we have onlyjust been notified of that. so i think between the time i was told that i was talking to you and by the sounds of things just now, you got some updates on that? so do tell us more. yes, so it has beena very so do tell us more. yes, so it has been a very fast moving situation, annita. we have been advocating like crazy for the past 36 hours. number one, we wanted to have some generous exemptions applied by new south wales, we wanted to have exemptions for basically unrestricted movement between the border towns at least, based on postcode. so if you can demonstrate that you live on either side, then you basically get rubber—stamped to do it. that we found out at 12.30 today was going to be put in place, so that was great. and the other thing we found out at 3.15, obviously this is all australian time, that the perimeter fence was going to be metaphorically speaking put around melbourne, but that the regions could continue to operate under the current freedoms th