Community transmission cases reported in NSW, military deployed to guard SA-Victoria border

Community transmission in Victoria is a major concern with outbreaks in public housing towers and a large school in Melbourne's west.

Personnel from 16 Regiment Royal Australian Artillery will be helping to enforce South Australia's hard border with Victoria. Source: Royal Australian Air Force/AAP

The Victorian coronavirus spike continues to trouble its neighbours, with a Melbourne man testing positive in NSW and South Australia deploying the military to help guard its border.

The southern state recorded 216 new cases on Saturday - a sixth consecutive day of triple digit rises - and brought the national death toll to 107 after a man in his 90s died.

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