Victoria has called on the rest of the country to follow its suit and ramp up their hotel quarantine programs by testing all incoming flight crews.
Police Minister Lisa Neville said in the past two weeks 27 cases had been recorded in hotel quarantine in Victoria, eight of which were cases in flight crew.
"This is such a high risk for all of us around the country, everybody needs to follow suit and test flight crews," she said.
About 1000 flight staff have so far been tested since compulsory testing of airline workers begun.
"I would today be saying to other states nationally, they need to follow Victoria's lead and test flight crew. (It is) absolutely critical given the numbers we've seen," Ms Neville said.
The state today recorded three locally acquired cases and one in hotel quarantine.
The police minister, who heads Victoria's recently established COVID-19 Quarantine Victoria (CQV) program, said the hotel quarantine program was the "strongest in the country".
Her call comes as Victoria Police today confirmed 1532 motorists have been turned away at the border and more than 1032 warnings and 50 fines have been issued.
Some of the fines include people from border communities with those outside border communities in their car attempting to cross, and instances of "checkpoint hopping" by those who are not permitted to enter at all.
Other fines have been for people with misleading permit applications.
A group of people in a car all received fines after they said they had been to a local restaurant across the border that police knew wasn't open.
The border patrols then found a receipt from a restaurant in Sydney's Northern Beaches, discovering they had driven towards Victoria directly from the hotspot.
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