Five cases have been linked to Turramurra Salon for Hair on Sydney s north shore, one additional case is linked to The Rose in Erskineville in the inner west – taking the pub s total to two cases – and five cases are linked to a workplace in the CBD after people who caught the virus in Avalon visited the venues while unknowingly infectious. NSW Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant said it was critical that anyone who had been to these venues during the exposure period immediately isolated and came forward for testing. What we are interested in is that we don t see further transmission that is not directly linked to the Avalon cluster, Chant said.
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Sydney’s Swelling Covid Outbreak Risks Scuppering Christmas Bloomberg 12/21/2020
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Sydney’s 5 million residents are being urged to curb activities over the next few days to avoid fanning a coronavirus outbreak that’s closed state borders and threatens to scupper Christmas festivities.
A new health order from Monday limits gatherings in homes and entertainment venues across metropolitan Sydney for at least three days, while New South Wales state health officials work to trace the source and contain a growing cluster involving 83 people.
“We’re on a precipice,” said Marylouise McLaws, professor of epidemiology, hospital infection and infectious diseases control at the University of New South Wales. A seven-day, Sydney-wide “stay at home” order may be necessary to arrest the spread of the virus, and it would be prudent for residents to curtail holiday festivities if not cancel them altogether, she said.
SA keeps NSW border open but reintroduces online travel applications to reduce COVID-19 risk
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South Australia will keep its border with New South Wales open but will reintroduce its cross-border application process for anyone travelling into SA from interstate, in response to a coronavirus cluster in Sydney s north.
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Police Commissioner Grant Stevens confirmed borders would stay open for now
Chief Public Health Officer Nicola Spurrier said SA Health was still determining how many people may have recently been to the Northern Beaches