âI was blown awayâ: eastern suburbs residents turn up for COVID-19 testing
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Eastern suburbs residents braved blustery conditions to be tested for COVID-19 on Thursday after more venues were added to the list of potential exposure sites.
St Vincentâs Hospital staff conduct COVID-19 tests at their clinic in Darlinghurst on Thursday.
Credit:Photo: Kate Geraghty
On Thursday, people who attended the Fratelli Fresh restaurant at Westfield Sydney on Tuesday, April 27, from 1.15pm to 2.15pm or Bondi Trattoria at Bondi Beach on Thursday, April 29, from 12.45pm to 1.30pm were asked to test and self-isolate.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian came under fire for going so hard, so fast with the restrictions - but she hit back and said the government s response was extremely proportionate .
Health by Bianca Mastroianni Lisa Wilkinson made an extremely good point during Thursday night s episode of The Project. Her comments came as she discussed the latest Sydney COVID outbreak with co-host Waleed Aly, and the struggles that will come with it being Mother s Day weekend. Here we are again. The Mother s Day thing is interesting. Indoor is the main issue with COVID, Aly explained. All of the recent outbreaks have occurred over public holidays. Picture: Channel 10 We know that from experience. And the weather in Sydney over the weekend is meant to be wet, which means Mother s Day will probably be inside. Which does increase the risk. It s not a great situation.
Sydneysiders are bracing themselves for a potential lockdown after a man and his wife tested positive for Covid-19 after visiting several venues in the eastern suburbs
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New South Wales has recorded one new community case of COVID-19, a day after a man from Sydney s eastern suburbs also tested positive for the virus.
The new case is the wife of a man in his 50s who visited several locations between Friday and Sunday while infectious. Nine other close contacts have returned negative tests overnight.
Health authorities have been unable to determine the source of his infection, sparking fears the virus could be circulating undetected in the community.
READ MORE While we remain on high alert, pleasingly, at this stage, nobody else has been identified as being a positive case, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian told reporters on Thursday.