Western Australia also reinstated its hard border with NSW from midnight Saturday. More venues have been added to a NSW Health alert list. Anyone who was at the following venues is considered a close contact and should get tested immediately and self-isolate for 14 days, regardless of the result:
Café Junior, Woolworths Neutral Bay Village, 1-7 Rangers Road, Neutral Bay: Sunday 13 December, 12:45pm - 2.30pm
Salon X, 86 William Street, Paddington: Wednesday 16 December, 9am - 6pm and Thursday 17 December, 9am - 8pm
Mona Vale Golf Club (bar and function room), 3 Golf Avenue, Mona Vale: Wednesday 16 December, 5pm - 10pm
Garfish Seafood Restaurant, 39 East Esplanade, Manly: Thursday 17 December, 6:45pm - 8:30pm
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Queensland businesses have been put on notice after authorities discovered some of the crucial contact details which customers are required to leave when checking-in were illegible. Officials will now launch a compliance blitz ahead of Christmas and over the holiday period with businesses given 72 hours to move away from paper-based check-ins. As Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk yesterday urged venues to get their house in order , Queenslanders in greater Sydney were left scrambling to get home before Tuesday if they wanted to avoid mandatory hotel quarantine. Ms Palaszczuk revealed authorities weren t able to get in touch with everyone who visited The Glen Hotel in Eight Mile Plains, after a woman who s since tested positive for COVID-19 visited it on December 16, because there was illegible handwriting with check-ins.
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Subscriber only Queensland authorities can t rule out slamming the border shut on greater Sydney, as NSW probes whether airline crew could be behind the growing Northern Beaches COVID-19 outbreak. The Christmas plans of Queenslanders hoping to reunite with southern relatives hung in the balance on Friday night, as NSW authorities put Sydney on its highest alert and urged residents to wear a mask. Queensland Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young couldn t say on Friday whether the state s border would shut to greater Sydney before Christmas, warning further hot spots could be declared should community transmission grow. The NSW government was forced to bring in new measures after an international airline crew breached quarantine restrictions, with all crews now required to isolate at two designated hotels near the airport under police guard.