23 December 2020 1:13pm
Victoria has recorded no new local cases of coronavirus authorities announced earlier today, following a 15-year-old girl that returned to the state after having visited Sydney’s Northern Beaches.
The teenager lives in the Moonee Valley area of Melbourne and has been in isolation since returning home from NSW.
Her mother has returned a negative test and is being re-tested, alongside another two people from the household who are being tested while authorities are taking no risks, monitoring everyone’s phone records to be sure of their movements.
Meanwhile, there was one new international arrival in quarantine, recorded overnight after 22,956 tests were conducted.
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New South Wales has recorded similar coronavirus case numbers to Tuesday s eight with no major spike in infections.
Northern Beaches residents are set to have a more restricted Christmas than the rest of the city, with Gladys Berejiklian to announce the rules at 11am.
On Wednesday morning the premier was in a three-hour crisis meeting with health bosses and police chiefs to discuss which restrictions to impose on five million residents of Australia s biggest city.
NSW Police Minster David Elliot earlier told Sunrise that it s highly possible the Northern Beaches, which has been in lockdown since Saturday, would still have different rules to the rest of Sydney.
Bill White and his stablehand granddaughter Lauren with Blis Valley after their Maryborough win
Veteran Bendigo harness racing trainer Bill White made a rare appearance at the races this week - and the wily horseman returned home with the spoils. Dad is 86 and prefers to stay at home and watch them on television. He usually tells us that there s really no need for him to go, his son Ian said. But when we had three runners at Maryborough on Monday, he decided he d better come along for the ride.
And Bill may have just been the needed lucky charm as five-year-old gelding Blis Valley (
Millions have been left separated from loved ones over Christmas after states slammed their borders shut
Shut downs were imposed on Sunday after NSW reported just 30 new covid cases with all of them linked
New South Wales did not decide to close its border to Victoria until the state recorded 127 new local cases
Premier Gladys Berejiklian said leaders have lost their nerve and clearly do not trust their tracing systems
Ms Berejiklian will hold a crisis cabinet meeting on Wednesday to decide on Christmas Day restrictions
The premier said the government will take a cautious but balanced approach when deciding new measures