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Berejiklian has once again stressed that people should not leave home and mingle with other households. This remains a challenging aspect of the latest outbreak that has prompted a lockdown that has so far lasted a month.
She said it was important for people not to mingle. Can I stress again, it is really important for people not to leave home unless they absolutely have to? And, in particular, do not mingle.
The state carried out more than 98,000 tests in 24 hours.
NSW recorded 145 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 8pm last night. pic.twitter.com/TUUIDvd6SP NSW Health (@NSWHealth) July 26, 2021
Queensland authorities are cracking down on hotel quarantine exemptions in a bid to stop highly-contagious mutant strains escaping into the community. It comes as three new cases were revealed in Queensland today, all acquired overseas and detected in hotel quarantine, taking the state s active cases to 14. Queensland Health has revealed it has approved just 104 exemption requests out of 34,774 lodged since June for overseas and domestic travellers to skip government-mandated hotel quarantine and instead do their mandatory 14-days isolation at home. Barry Parmenter is one of thousands who have spent 14 days in hotel quarantine. Photographer: Liam Kidston. But exemptions have become even more scarce since November when only one international traveller was granted an exemption as Queensland Health tightened criteria in the wake of outbreaks interstate when the virus escaped quarantine.