Australia has extended the coronavirus travel ban to Italy.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the ban will come into effect at 6pm on Wednesday.
"The situation in Italy is now commensurate with the other countries where we previously had travel bans put in place," Mr Morrison said.
"I think that it is important not to overstate this. Italy itself has effectively put itself into lockdown with travel now, and this largely closes that loop. We already had the enhanced screening measures that are in place."
Citizens or permanent residents will be able to return but will need to self-isolate for 14 days.
Australia already has a ban in place for travellers from China, Iran and South Korea.
It comes as NSW health authorities have confirmed six more cases of coronavirus, bringing the state's total to 61.
The latest cases include a family member of a resident of the Dorothy Henderson Lodge Aged Care Facility, where an outbreak of COVID-19 killed to elderly residents.
A woman and man, both in their 50s, who had recently arrived in Sydney from the United States were also confirmed to have contracted the virus, NSW Health said in a statement late on Tuesday. The pair were not known to each other.
More than 100 cases of coronavirus have so far been confirmed in Australia, with the majority recorded in Sydney.
On Wednesday morning, Victorian health authorities also reported three additional cases in people who had returned from the US, including a man in his 50s who arrived from Seattle on 7 March.
Authorities are working to contact passengers on Virgin Australia flight VA24 who sat near the man after he developed flu-like symptoms days after arriving home.
Before he was diagnosed, he also visited the Mussel and Jazz Festival at South Melbourne Market on 7 March (between 2 pm and 3.30 pm) and the Rebels and Lions rugby union match at AAMI Park on the same day, where he sat in section 9.
The other two new cases had been on flights UA0600 and QF94 from the US, which have already had coronavirus cases confirmed.
One of the patients, a man in his 50s, had worked at Yeshiva-Beth Rivkah College in St Kilda East for half a day on 9 March while showing symptoms.
The school will be closed on Wednesday as a precaution, a day after the in Kew became the first Melbourne school to shut its doors due to the virus.
Southern Cross University also announced it would be shutting its Gold Coast and Lismore campuses on Wednesday morning after a staff member tested positive.
In a statement, the university said the staff member had attended a series of workshops at the campuses between 2-6 March before returning to the Philippines on 7 March.
“Our priority at all times is the well-being of our staff, students and visitors so we apologise for this short disruption but it is the right thing to do,” Southern Cross University Vice President (Operations) Allan Morris said.
Forty-five people have been identified as coming into close contact with the staff member during his time in Australia and will be contacted by health authorities.
In NSW, - Epping Boys High School (which has now reopened, St Patrick's Marist College and Willoughby Girls High School - after a number of students were diagnosed with COVID-19.
Across the world, the number of confirmed cases has surpassed 118,000, resulting in more than 4,200 deaths.
