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Six back-to-back Christmas shows were held across Friday and Saturday.
The website of the children s entertainment juggernaut promised a healthy and safe environment for fans including temperature screening on arrival and hand sanitiser stations. It also noted the venue would be deep cleaned between shows.
Crowds arriving for Wiggles show at the Sydney Coliseum Theatre.
Credit:Sydney Morning Herald
However parents took to social media to vent their shock and disappointment after turning up to find no temperature checking in place and little social distancing, with large groups of people congregating in close proximity to each other.
One attendee, who wished to remain anonymous, told the
Six back-to-back Christmas shows were held across Friday and Saturday.
The website of the children s entertainment juggernaut promised a healthy and safe environment for fans including temperature screening on arrival and hand sanitiser stations. It also noted the venue would be deep cleaned between shows.
Crowds arriving for Wiggles show at the Sydney Coliseum Theatre.
Credit:Sydney Morning Herald
However parents took to social media to vent their shock and disappointment after turning up to find no temperature checking in place and little social distancing, with large groups of people congregating in close proximity to each other.
One attendee, who wished to remain anonymous, told the
Unfortunately, the house included at least one person contagious with Covid-19. By yesterday morning, New SW Health had identified 23 people in the northern beaches cluster as attending the Avalon Bowlo that fateful afternoon, while 15 people attended the Avalon RSL two days earlier. Several people attended both venues. But now both venues and the entire beaches region are locked down, with residents facing A$1100 fines for leaving their homes unless for an approved reason, as NSW Health scrambles to avoid a disastrous Covid-19 resurgence that has already spooked Sydney and ruined Christmas for many families either struck by the virus or hit by renewed border closures.
Cover band Nothing Too Serious have become the target of online abuse after their drummer tested positive to coronavirus following a gig at Avalon RSL Club - as the Northern Beaches cluster climbs to 38.
The drummer, a Frenchs Forest man in his 60s, likely contracted the virus during the performance at the RSL club on December 11. There are 15 infections now connected to the venue.
The man then performed at the Penrith RSL on December 13 and at the Kirribilli Club on December 14 before NSW Health issued an urgent alert for the Northern Beaches on December 16 - at which point he got tested and went into self-isolation.