Hannah Wootton
Sydneysiders will be cut off from most of Australia from midnight on Sunday as Victoria, Queensland and SA joined WA and Tasmania in slamming their borders closed in light of the city s growing northern suburb s cluster.
Victoria s NSW border will close to anyone who is from or has visited Greater Sydney and the Central Coast from midnight on Sunday, with anyone entering after that time ordered into hotel quarantine.
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Victorians get a grace period; if they return home by midnight on Monday, they can quarantine at home provided they get a COVID-19 test within 24 hours. From midnight on Monday, they will also enter hotel quarantine.
Local band receiving furious messages for Sydney virus cluster
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Sydney covers band receiving furious messages for city s virus cluster
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Covid 19 coronavirus: Anger at Sydney covers band over virus cluster
19 Dec, 2020 07:00 AM
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People line up at a Covid-19 testing site at Mona Vale Hospital on December 18 in Sydney. Photo / Getty Images
People line up at a Covid-19 testing site at Mona Vale Hospital on December 18 in Sydney. Photo / Getty Images
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A local cover band who played at the RSL where Sydney s virus cluster started have become the punching bag for furious northern beaches residents facing scuppered plans in the lead-up to Christmas.
Nothing Too Serious, a group comprising of northern beaches residents, have borne the brunt of frustrated locals after they were named by Health Minister Brad Hazzard in a press conference this week and mistakenly labelled superspreaders .
Well, it didn t take long did it for our enviable position as a COVID-free country to evaporate. Less than a week ago we had all but eliminated coronavirus from the Australian community. and the only new cases were those we imported whenever another aircraft landed and disgorged its passengers and crew. Aircrews at Sydney Airport on Saturday were collected by ground transport and taken to their hotels. Picture: David Swift To date, we ve put our effort into making returned travellers go through a fairly strict 14 days of hotel quarantine and largely, Victoria aside, that s kept infections away from the domestic population; but am I the only one who was surprised to hear that flight crews largely came and went from 20-plus separate NSW hotels on nothing much more than a gentlemen s agreement? And it s not just NSW here that s failed either - Victoria also gave aircrew a free pass, and Queensland has for months been granting international celebrities special exemptions to is