NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian is urging people to stay at home this New Year's Eve, with outdoor gatherings across Greater Sydney reduced from 100 to 50 people.
However, restrictions on the northern beaches will again be temporarily eased, as occurred over Christmas.
On New Year s Eve and New Year s Day, residents of the northern part of the northern beaches will be allowed to have up to five visitors at their homes, as well as outdoors. South of Narrabeen Bridge, residents will be allowed 10 visitors either in their homes or at a gathering outside. Unlike Christmas, those 10 people include children and it also means they have to be from your zone, from the southern part of the northern beaches, the Premier said. We don t want people moving in and out of the area for the next few days. We want to keep the area separate to make sure that any untraced chains of community transmission have actually been clamped down.
News by Bella Fowler and Lauren McMah 28th Dec 2020 7:54 AM | Updated: 30th Dec 2020 10:16 AM New South Wales has recorded 18 new cases of coronavirus in the past day - a worrying surge in numbers compared to recent days - and a new cluster has been declared. Premier Gladys Berejiklian described an outbreak in Croydon in Sydney s inner-west as concerning , with six cases recorded so far. There have also been a further two infections in Wollongong, 120km south of Sydney. A series of mystery cases, the source of which can t be determined, continue to worry health authorities also. Ms Berejiklian pleaded for anyone in the state with even the mildest of symptoms to come forward for testing in a bid to get on top of the outbreak.
NSW Health issues alerts for more locations across Sydney 28/12/2020|2min
NSW Health alerts have been issued for more locations across Sydney as contact tracers work to contain the Northern Beaches outbreak.
There are calls for an increase in testing state-wide and in targeted areas such as North Sydney and the city s south-west.
Patrons who attended Cibo Cafe in North Sydney on Wednesday December 16 from 11.30am to 12.45pm must get tested and isolate for 14 days regardless of the result.
Anyone who was at Casula Mall s Priceline Pharmacy or Coles on Thursday December 24 from 7pm to 7.30pm, as well as the Radio Bombay Restaurant from 7.30pm to 7.50pm, are also required to get tested and isolate until they return a negative result.