New South Wales has recorded no new cases of coronavirus but restrictions including mask-wearing will remain in place until Monday morning.
A Sydney couple infected by the double mutant Indian variant of the disease tested positive on Wednesday and Thursday and are isolating at home.
Officials are scrambling to find out how they caught the virus, which has the same genomic sequence as a traveller from the US in hotel quarantine.
New South Wales has recorded no new cases of coronavirus but restrictions including mask-wearing will remain in place until Monday morning. Pictured: Commuters on Friday
NSW Transport workers hand out face masks at Town Hall rail station in Sydney
NSW has recorded two new community Covid infections in a husband and wife
Man s case was first reported on Wednesday and sent shockwaves through city
He has not returned from overseas and does not work in border control or health
His wife has now contracted virus, which is linked to returned traveller from U.S.
Premier Gladys Berejiklian announced a host of new restrictions on Thursday
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian came under fire for going so hard, so fast with the restrictions - but she hit back and said the government s response was extremely proportionate .
Sydneysiders are bracing themselves for a potential lockdown after a man and his wife tested positive for Covid-19 after visiting several venues in the eastern suburbs
Health experts have three days to work out how Covid spread from a traveller
Testing has linked the cases to a returned US traveller - but there is a missing link
The positive case is a man in his 50s, but he had no contact with quarantine
Restrictions are set to be lifted on Monday at 12.01am - but link must be found
He visited 14 suburbs in Sydney while infected with Covid-19 last weekend
Masks are mandatory, dancing banned and only 20 people are allowed in a home