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Australia on alert as outbreak on Sydney s Northern Beaches threatens to spread across New South Wales
17th new case within 24 hours recorded as 270,000 were asked to stay at home, avoid travel or going out
But it was a different story in Sydney s CBD as hundreds of revellers celebrated the start of the festive season
The outbreak leaves travel plans in chaos as states and territories quickly stepped up travel restrictions
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The Project host Lisa Wilkinson has slammed Sydney residents for their blase attitudes and virtually forgetting about the coronavirus pandemic.
She then doubled down, predicting Prime Minister Scott Morrison will live to regret congratulating NSW for its previously low case numbers. I feel that complacency has started to creep in within NSW and it s scary, a fired up Wilkinson said to co-host Liz Ellis on The Project on Thursday night. In NSW, because we never went through what Victoria did or South Australia, we have been sort of rolling along thinking gee, haven t we done well. Well it turns out it (pandemic) is definitely still out there with people passing it on.
From midnight tonight, all New South Wales arrivals into Western Australia will be required to self-quarantine for two weeks as the Sydney northern beaches coronavirus cluster swelled to 17 people.
WA Premier Mark McGowan said the cluster had elevated NSW from a very low risk state to a low risk state.
From tomorrow, people arriving from NSW will have to self-quarantine for 14 days, and have a COVID-19 test on day 11.
Planes were stuck on the Perth tarmac for hours as airport authorities adjusted to the new rules changes.(9News)
People who had been in NSW at any time from December 11, and had arrived in WA before the midnight cut-off, will have to self-quarantine, front for a COVID-19 test as soon as possible, and stay isolated until a negative result is returned.