Sydney Covid-19 cluster threatens city s pandemic success
Sydney Covid-19 cluster threatens city s pandemic success Friday, December 18, 2020 IWK Bureau
A new coronavirus cluster in Sydney has threatened to the Australian past city s success in containing the pandemic, with authorities warning anyone in the area with even the mildest of symptoms to get tested.
Two cases with no known source were identified on Sydney s Northern Beaches on Wednesday, with aan additional three infections confirmed by health officials on Thursday, reports Xinhua news agency.
Another man who worked at Sydney Airport driving international air crew tested positive on Tuesday, although he is not believed to be linked to the other cases.
Coronavirus NSW: 17 new cases in the northern beaches area
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Queensland, Victoria and the Northern Territory said returning residents or visitors who had been to the northern beaches since December 11 needed to be tested and enter either hotel quarantine or self quarantine for 14 days. Western Australia Premier Mark McGowan extended the quarantine requirements to all arrivals from NSW. On Thursday night, NSW Health increased the number of possible community transmission sites on the northern beaches to 30. Anyone who visited the locations – including an Aldi supermarket, Commonwealth Bank branch and a Chemist Warehouse outlet – must get tested immediately and self-isolate. “As a number of new cases are currently being interviewed, it is likely that a number of new venues will be identified and that people in the northern beaches may have attended these venues,” NSW Health said in a statement asking people to avoid unnecessary gatherings to assist the contact-tracing effort.