NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian eases COVID-19 restrictions across Greater Sydney
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Singing and dancing will be allowed at gatherings after NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian announced a further easing of COVID-19 restrictions.
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Today marks the 38th consecutive day without any community transmissions in NSW
More than 3,200 people received the Pfizer vaccine in NSW since Monday
From 12:01am on Friday, NSW residents will be allowed up to 50 people at their home, up from 30 the total number of visitors includes adults and children.
Sydney news: NSW Opposition Leader Jodi McKay denies writing letter of support for paedophile
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NSW Labor leader Jodi McKay has requested the public record be clarified.
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Opposition Leader denies support
The NSW Opposition Leader has categorically denied writing a letter of support for a convicted paedophile.
Jodi McKay agreed the letter relating to the Tamil refugee, who reportedly served a jail sentence for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old Sydney girl, was signed by her in August 2018.
However she said it was incorrectly characterised in legal documents in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal as a letter of support .
NSW has changed its health advice so people returning from Victoria will not have to enter a five-day lockdown unless they arrive back after midnight Friday, following updated advice from chief health officer Kerry Chant.
Experts describe as an "extreme outlier" a person who tested positive for COVID-19 two days after leaving hotel quarantine, as authorities probe whether the returned overseas traveller was actually infected in Sydney.
NSW records seventh doughnut day as no local coronavirus infections found
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NSW Health s Christine Selvey says the state has recorded no new locally acquired cases of COVID-19.
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NSW has recorded its seventh doughnut day , with no local cases of coronavirus recorded to 8:00pm yesterday.
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No local cases were found yesterday, but three infections were found in hotel quarantine
NSW has recorded just under 5,000 cases since March 2020, seven of which are under investigation