NSW woman arrested after allegedly fleeing Victorian police at COVID-19 checkpoint
A resident of a New South Wales coronavirus red zone has been arrested after allegedly fleeing Victorian police at a COVID-19 checkpoint in East Gippsland.
Police allege the 57-year-old woman from Bateau Bay, on NSW s Central Coast, attempted to enter Victoria this morning and was directed to return to NSW and make an application for a border permit.
Victoria Police said about 4am today, a grey Volkswagen Passat station wagon allegedly evaded the Chandlers Creek checkpoint at a fast rate of speed .
People are seen waiting in long lines for Covid-19 tests at the Brookvale Centre on December 19, 2020 in Sydney, Australia. A cluster of Covid-19 cases on the northern beaches of Sydney continues to grow causing other Australian states and territories to impose restrictions on travel ahead of the Christmas holidays. The source of the cluster has not yet been found. (Photo by Lee Hulsman/Getty Images)(
Photos shared on social media showed empty shelves at Woolworths stores in Avalon and beyond.
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Northern Beaches mayor Michael Regan has urged local residents to buy only what they need as the region begins its first full day of a new lockdown.(9News) This is the toilet paper section at our supermarket on the Northern Beaches within an hour of the travel restrictions being announced, wrote one resident, alongside a photo of an all-but-empty shelf. The queue to get out extended back to the freezers at the back of the store.
Mr Regan suggested panic buying in such circumstances was inevitable, even as he urged residents to remain calm.
Holidaymakers rushed to Sydney Airport to flee the Harbour City as the coronavirus cluster continues to grow
Most travellers wore face masks in the terminal with outbreak threatening Christmas plans across the nation
New South Wales recorded 30 new cases of coronavirus but not a single one outside the Northern Beaches
Victoria, Queensland are shutting their bodies to anyone from Greater Sydney with locals urged to go home
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New South Wales recorded 30 new cases of coronavirus but not a single one outside the Northern Beaches
New restrictions have been imposed for Greater Sydney with maximum of 10 people allowed in homes
Victoria, Queensland are shutting their bodies to anyone from Greater Sydney with locals urged to go home
There are now 68 cases as part of the Northern Beaches cluster, plunging 270,000 people into lockdown
The strain of the virus is believed to be from US but disease detectives have not worked out how it escaped
Thousands of travellers have fled NSW as states and territories prepare to lock out the state s residents in the wake of Sydney s growing coronavirus outbreak.
NSW recorded another 30 confirmed COVID-19 cases yesterday, with 28 of those cases already linked to the Avalon cluster.
Passengers queue for departure at Sydney Domestic Airport in Sydney. 19th Dec 2020(Steven Saphore / SMH SHD NEWS)
Victoria and South Australia have both barred Northern Beaches residents and directed the rest of Sydney into 14-day quarantines.
The ACT joined the chorus, with Canberrans advised not to travel to the Northern Beaches, while Western Australia reinstated its hard border with NSW on Saturday night.