Police are scouring CCTV from the Sydney hardware store to find the disgusting attacker.
NSW Deputy Police Commissioner Gary Worboys said a 51-year-old man was being harassed for not adhering to public health orders. The man who was doing the chastising decided to spit at that man, he told reporters on Thursday morning.
Police are hunting a man who spat on a Bunnings shopper for not wearing a face mask (file image)
Rushcutters Bay Park on Wednesday. Greater Sydney is under a strict stay-at-home lockdown until July 16 at the earliest and face masks are compulsory across NSW That behaviour is just disgusting. [If] people have an issue that they cannot resolve with some cordial communication. [at] these retail settings, they should ring the police, he said.
Police will crack down on virus-hit areas of south-west Sydney from Friday
More than 100 extra police officers will surge into the area beginning at 7am
Overnight, NSW reported its highest number of daily cases - 38 - in a year
21 were from three council areas: Fairfield, Liverpool, Canterbury-Bankstown
Premier Gladys Berejiklian pleads with locals: Please avoid visiting family
Senior policeman suggests shoppers could be stopped from buying shoes
More than 45,000 people were tested during the 24-hour period to 8pm Tuesday (local time). Berejiklian also revealed Thursday’s case numbers are “higher than we would like to have seen”. “What we want to do is give us our best chance of making sure this is the only lockdown we have until the vast majority of our citizens are vaccinated,” she said. The lockdown extension will mean schools in Greater Sydney move to remote learning when they return for term three on Tuesday. “I hear from friends and families [that] home schooling and home learning is difficult, but it is for four days – let’s all pull together and do our best during those four days.“
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NSW reported 27 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, as it was announced Greater Sydney’s lockdown would be extended by a week.
Nine of the new cases had not yet been linked to any known cases or clusters and only 13 were in isolation for their entire infectious periods.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has emphasised the need for residents of Greater Sydney to minimise their movements for at least another week.
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Premier Gladys Berejiklian said on Wednesday the “difficult decision” to extend Greater Sydney’s lockdown by a week was largely due to the presence of the highly transmissible Delta variant in the community.
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