Coronavirus updates LIVE: Victorian government requests ADF to enforce hotel quarantine as Victoria records 20 new COVID-19 cases, Australian death toll stands at 103

That's all for our coronavirus updates blog today, and thanks for tuning in.

There is going to be another coronavirus updates blog tomorrow morning, but I'm taking a break from blogging after three days in a row and will be handing over the reins to Marissa Calligeros.

Here is a summary of the key updates today:

• A man in his 80s has died of coronavirus in Victoria, bringing the state's death toll from the virus to 20. Nationwide there have been 103 deaths from coronavirus since the start of the outbreak.
• A total of 30 new coronavirus cases have been confirmed nationwide today: 20 in Victoria and 10 in New South Wales.
• The Victorian government has requested military support to help manage its COVID-19 outbreak, including the quarantine hotels where security guards have been infected and taken the virus home to their families.
• Of the 20 new cases in Victoria, seven are linked to known outbreaks, one is an overseas traveller in hotel quarantine, nine were detected through routine testing (which means the source of the infection is not yet apparent) and three are currently under investigation.
• All 10 of the new cases in New South Wales are returned overseas travellers in hotel quarantine.
• No new coronavirus cases have been recorded in Queensland for the seventh day in a row.
• The Victorian Health Department has not released a list of Melbourne suburbs that have recorded an increase in recent days. Health Minister Jenny Mikakos said on radio this morning that the list of suburbs would be published today.
• NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has reiterated her advice for people to "rethink any travel to Melbourne whatsoever", although she says it is unlikely her state will close its borders.
• Woolworths will reinstate product limits for a number of items at its Victorian stores due to a spike in demand over the past 24 hours as concerns over a coronavirus outbreak in the state escalate.
• Health Minister Greg Hunt has said he believes large anti-racism protests held in Australian cities two weeks ago led to a relaxation of community attitudes towards social distancing, which is to blame for the recent spike in cases.
• Victoria's Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton said this morning that so far the COVIDSafe app had not identified anyone that contact tracers hadn’t already uncovered through the manual process.

A man in his 80s has died overnight in Victoria from coronavirus, the first in many weeks, which brings the total number of deaths in the state to 20.

There are 20 new cases of COVID-19 to report today, said Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton.

"Seven are linked to known outbreaks. One has been detected in hotel quarantine. Nine through routine testing and three other cases are under investigation," he said.

The man's death takes the national death toll from coronavirus to 103.

A total of 20 new coronavirus cases have been confirmed in Victoria, the state's Health Minister Jenny Mikakos has said.

It is the eighth straight day that the number of new cases has been in double digits.

Ms Mikakos warned the state had been reporting a 2.5 reproduction rate this week. (This means on average an infected person spreads the disease to 2.5 other people)

The state government has previously said the reproduction rate should be below one.

"This has happened very suddenly," Ms Mikakos said.

A warning from the NSW Premier managed to spook, but not deter, a hardy army of interstate travellers at Melbourne Airport on Wednesday, who rejected her advice to reconsider travelling to Victoria.

The travellers reasoned that politicians hadn’t closed the Victorian-NSW border – at least yet – and they didn’t feel that travel was unsafe enough to warrant it.

Hannah Richardson, 33, who was returning to Melbourne after more than a week visiting her parents and brother in Croydon, in Sydney’s inner west, said NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian was "‘being a bit over-cautious’’.

"I think it was a little bit much," she said. "I mean, there’s been a spike [in Victorian coronavirus cases], but it’s not outrageous, right?

• Read more: Travellers rattled by warnings but still heading to and from Victoria

That's all for our coronavirus updates blog today, and thanks for tuning in.

There is going to be another coronavirus updates blog tomorrow morning, but I'm taking a break from blogging after three days in a row and will be handing over the reins to Marissa Calligeros.

Here is a summary of the key updates today:

• A man in his 80s has died of coronavirus in Victoria, bringing the state's death toll from the virus to 20. Nationwide there have been 103 deaths from coronavirus since the start of the outbreak.
• A total of 30 new coronavirus cases have been confirmed nationwide today: 20 in Victoria and 10 in New South Wales.
• The Victorian government has requested military support to help manage its COVID-19 outbreak, including the quarantine hotels where security guards have been infected and taken the virus home to their families.
• Of the 20 new cases in Victoria, seven are linked to known outbreaks, one is an overseas traveller in hotel quarantine, nine were detected through routine testing (which means the source of the infection is not yet apparent) and three are currently under investigation.
• All 10 of the new cases in New South Wales are returned overseas travellers in hotel quarantine.
• No new coronavirus cases have been recorded in Queensland for the seventh day in a row.
• The Victorian Health Department has not released a list of Melbourne suburbs that have recorded an increase in recent days. Health Minister Jenny Mikakos said on radio this morning that the list of suburbs would be published today.
• NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has reiterated her advice for people to "rethink any travel to Melbourne whatsoever", although she says it is unlikely her state will close its borders.
• Woolworths will reinstate product limits for a number of items at its Victorian stores due to a spike in demand over the past 24 hours as concerns over a coronavirus outbreak in the state escalate.
• Health Minister Greg Hunt has said he believes large anti-racism protests held in Australian cities two weeks ago led to a relaxation of community attitudes towards social distancing, which is to blame for the recent spike in cases.
• Victoria's Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton said this morning that so far the COVIDSafe app had not identified anyone that contact tracers hadn’t already uncovered through the manual process.

The Victorian government has requested military support to help manage its COVID-19 outbreak, including the quarantine hotels where security guards have been infected and taken the virus home to their families.

Multiple senior Victorian and federal government sources confirmed the request had been made for military assistance.

Defence officials will meet with Victorian health authorities on Wednesday afternoon to finalise details of the plan to deploy military personnel on the ground in Melbourne, to assist with emergency management, planning and logistics support.

There are already 28 Australian Defence Force personnel assisting with the pandemic response in Victoria, including 12 who are involved in planning support, the department said in a statement on Wednesday.

• Read more: Victorian government requests military support to help manage hotel quarantine

Woolworths will reinstate product limits for a number of items at its Victorian stores due to a spike in demand over the past 24 hours as concerns over a coronavirus outbreak in the state escalate.

Toilet paper, hand sanitiser, paper towel, flour, sugar, pasta, mince meat, long-life milk, eggs and rice will be return to their two per person limit at all Woolworths’ Victorian stores from Wednesday afternoon.

The company said it was a preventative move made in response to “significantly elevated demand”.

The supermarket's managing director Claire Peters assured customers stores would remain open and the company had plenty of stock in its warehouses.

“While we have healthy stock levels to draw on, we’re taking this precautionary step to help prevent excessive buying and support appropriate social distancing in our Victorian stores,” she said.

“We have more than enough product for all of our customers if we all just buy what we need in our weekly shop.”

Woolworths will look to wind back its limits as soon as it can, she said. No product limits are being put in place outside of Victoria at this time.