The Perth Covid cluster has spread to New Zealand with two travellers from the same household forced into isolation after being declared casual contacts of an infected man.
New Zealand s Ministry of Health scrambled to contact 1,000 passengers who arrived in the country on direct flights from Perth on April 19, 21 and 23 after the city and the Peel region was plunged into a three-day lockdown from midnight Friday. Of those, two people from the same household have let health authorities know they were in the Perth domestic terminal at the time specified in the locations of interest page, the ministry said in a statement on Sunday.
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17 March 2021 10:23am
An inflatable five-metre tall sculpture, mixing a bust of the ancient Greek poet Homer with the head of animation character Homer Simpson, is among the highlights of an artist fair held in Sydney from 18 to 21 March.
This won’t be the first appearance of Homer Homer Down Under. The artwork by European artist collective Cool Shit was seen in December 2020 at the Sculpture by the Sea exhibition, staged on Cottesloe Beach in Western Australia.
But artists state “excited” about the sculpture’s Sydney debut at the Other Art Fair.
The amalgamation of the Odyssey and Iliad author with one of the greatest comic creations is like a meme coming to life, only it’s huge and made of fabric.
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The sun will shine on Perth this week while millions of people on Australia s east coast are rained on every day. Picture: West Australians enjoy Cottesloe Beach, Perth, in January
A high pressure system moving into the Tasman Sea will see the showers redeveloping along the NSW coast, he told Daily Mail Australia. Every day from Tuesday through to next Sunday there will be showery conditions, he said. It s a wet week unfortunately, with the winds blowing in from the Tasman.
Inland, NSW will see showers and thunderstorms developing mid-week with a risk of heavy rain later in the week.