Sydney records 15 new locally-acquired coronavirus cases - all linked to the Northern Beaches cluster - as hope grows the city s new outbreak has been contained
Sydney has recorded 15 new cases of coronavirus - and all have been linked to the Northern Beaches cluster
Health Minister Brad Hazzard said virus may have come from an Australian returning from Los Angeles
All states have closed borders to Greater Sydney and Western Australia has banned all of New South Wales
UK s mutant strain of Covid-19 which is 75 per cent more contagious has been detected in hotel quarantine
Hundreds of panicked pub-goers were wrongly told they were exposed to coronavirus and must self-isolate through Christmas.
All punters who attended Manly s Hotel Steyne on December 17 received a text from NSW Health on Monday night informing them of the grim, but incorrect, news. You have been exposed to the Covid-19 virus. You may have Covid-19 and could give it to others, the message read.
Hundreds of pub-goers have been left fuming after being wrongly told they were exposed to coronavirus and must self-isolate through Christmas (Pictured: Hotel Steyne at Manly Beach)
Punters who attended Manly s Hotel Steyne on December 17 received a text from NSW Health on Monday night informing them of the grim news
Sydney reported 30 new cases of coronavirus on Sunday, 28 with confirmed links to northern beaches cluster
Infectious disease expert Professor Raina MacIntyre said Sydney needs to go into lockdown if cases rise
She warned about the dangers of Christmas and New Year s, predicting cases could hit 3,000 by January 8
Prof MacIntyre said NSW needed to improve its digital contact-tracing and efficiency of testing clinics
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.
Cluster ballooned to 70 cases after 30 new infections were announced Sunday
Premier Gladys Berejiklian on Sunday urged all NSW residents to wear a mask
28 of Sunday s new cases are linked to the cluster on the Northern Beaches
Panic buying reminiscent of the first wave has swept across supermarkets
Anyone who visited Wharf Bar on December 12 should get tested and isolate
Other hotspots include Steyne Hotel, Cronulla Mall and Riverwood Woolworths