A Melbourne teenager who visited the epicentre of Sydney's coronavirus outbreak has tested positive for COVID-19.
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The 15-year-old girl returned home on Thursday and tested positive three days later.
She visited several exposure sites in Sydney's northern beaches area before being driven back to Victoria by her mother.
The mother has so far tested negative and the family is isolating at their home in the Moonee Valley area.
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Health Minister Martin Foley on Tuesday said there were no known exposure sites this side of the border and close contacts of the family were being contacted.
As of Monday night, 17 people including a family of five were in hotel quarantine in Victoria after crossing the border without appropriate exemptions.
Victoria has shut its border to people travelling from greater Sydney and the NSW Central Coast.
"My message to anyone trying to enter Victoria from New South Wales is - don't," Mr Foley said.
"You won't get in, and if you do, you'll be spending your time at Christmas and New Year in hotel quarantine."
It was also revealed there are at least 300 people in Victoria who visited exposure locations in New South Wales.
"Three hundred people in Victoria are being tested, who are being isolated, who are working with our contact tracing and Health colleagues. They are being supported. We expect over the coming days, as more of those returning Victorians from yesterday get themselves tested and contact us, that that number will grow," said the commander of Victoria's COVID testing program Jeroen Weimar.
Mr Weimar said there were 21,000 arrivals from red zones between December 11 and December 19.
"Mainly by air, because obviously we have all the flight manifests. Everybody who arrived by air from Sydney Airport has been sent repeated text messages to encourage them to go and get tested."
Local government area bubbles have been established on either side of the Victorian-NSW boundary to allow those in border communities to cross upon presentation of their driver's licence.
Meanwhile, Victoria on Tuesday reported its 53rd day without a locally acquired coronavirus case.
There are now 11 active cases in Victoria, including two returned overseas travellers and the NSW case.
Some 15,521 coronavirus tests were conducted in the past 24 hour-period.
The NSW government on Monday announced 15 new locally transmitted cases. All were linked to the outbreak on the city's northern beaches, taking the total to 83 cases.
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