NSW MPs locked out of Parliament House after Agriculture Minister Adam Marshall tests positive to COVID-19
NSW Agriculture Minister Adam Marshall tests positive for COVID-19 â he dined at a venue of concern on Monday night and attended a Coalition party room meeting on Tuesday. 24 June 2021
NSW Agriculture Minister Adam Marshall has tested positive to COVID-19 after dining at a Sydney restaurant ahead of the state budget.Â
He was one of four Nationals MP who went into isolation yesterday after attending Christo s Pizzeria in Paddington, which health authorities later identified as a venue of concern.Â
His three Nationals colleagues â Trevor Khan, Steph Cooke and Ben Franklin â are also in isolation after the Monday night dinner.Â
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The pandemic is more threatening today than it was one year ago, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has declared in a private warning to government MPs about continuing the cautious approach to opening international borders.
Mr Morrison told Coalition MPs on Tuesday morning the coronavirus remained a danger to Australia when it was “racing” through countries like India, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has warned Coalition MPs he will continue to take a cautious approach to reopening international borders.
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“He said it is only just getting started in those countries and we cannot sit here and think because we can get 100,000 in the MCG that this pandemic is over,” a Coalition spokesman said of the Prime Minister’s remarks.
A Melbourne man in his 30s has tested positive for COVID-19 after returning to his home in Melbourne’s north on Tuesday following hotel quarantine in South Australia.
The man from Wollert developed symptoms on Saturday and has returned a positive result after getting tested on Monday. Victorian health authorities are now working with SOuth Australia to discover the source of the infection.
SA Chief Health Officer, Professor Nicola Spurrier told the media in Adelaide she did not believe the man was infectious in SA “given the timing of his symptoms”, adding it is unlikely he was infectious while in quarantine in SA or on a domestic flight back to Melbourne.
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