FILE PHOTO: Players sanitise their hands as the South Sydney Rabbitohs of the National Rugby League (NRL) train amidst the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at Redfern Oval in Sydney, Australia, May 13, 2020. REUTERS/Loren Elliott
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australia's National Rugby League (NRL) ordered teams to adopt tighter biosecurity protocols on Tuesday following a surge of COVID-19 infections in the country's southeast.
The announcement came as Victoria state reported 270 new cases and neighbouring New South Wales ramped up social distancing restrictions amid a cluster of infections linked to a pub in western Sydney.
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