Palaszczuk pushes for emergency National Cabinet meeting over NSW outbreak21/12/2020|2min
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk is calling for the National Cabinet to meet ahead of the next officially scheduled meeting – set for February – if cases continue to rise in NSW.
At the height of the pandemic, National Cabinet was meeting almost nightly, however, now state and territory leaders have been acting largely on their own in terms of imposing restrictions.
Western Australia Premier Mark McGowan has implemented a hard border on all of NSW, while South Australia and the Northern Territory are taking more of a hotspot approach.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison – who was accused of being missing in action – released a short video, saying there didn’t appear to be evidence of seeding across Sydney, but warned against complacency.
Holidaymakers rushed to Sydney Airport to flee the Harbour City as the coronavirus cluster continues to grow
Most travellers wore face masks in the terminal with outbreak threatening Christmas plans across the nation
New South Wales recorded 30 new cases of coronavirus but not a single one outside the Northern Beaches
Victoria, Queensland are shutting their bodies to anyone from Greater Sydney with locals urged to go home
Covid 19 coronavirus: Australian states close to NSW due to Sydney cluster
20 Dec, 2020 02:18 AM
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With the Syndey coronavirus cluster continuing to grow, Australian state premiers are implementing new travel restrictions to keep the outbreak from spreading beyond New South Wales.
NSW reported 30 new cases of coronavirus today and tighter restrictions were imposed across the Greater Sydney area.
Contact tracers are following dozens of lines of inquiry and officials are poring over CCTV footage as they scramble to find the original source of the cluster.
Such is the mystery surrounding the outbreak that NSW s chief health officer has speculated that finding Patient Zero could be a challenge beyond us .
Strict restrictions which will hit Christmas plans across Sydney are in force - here s what you need to know about the new rules
New South Wales recorded 30 new cases of coronavirus but not a single one outside the Northern Beaches
New restrictions have been imposed for Greater Sydney with maximum of 10 people allowed in homes
Victoria, Queensland are shutting their bodies to anyone from Greater Sydney with locals urged to go home
There are now 68 cases as part of the Northern Beaches cluster, plunging 270,000 people into lockdown
The strain of the virus is believed to be from US but disease detectives have not worked out how it escaped
There are fears thousands of Sydneysiders have been exposed to COVID-19 following an outbreak in the Northern Beaches, as the list of potentially infected locations soars to 70 across the city.
Premier Gladys Berejiklian warned on Saturday afternoon she could tighten coronavirus restrictions within 24 hours if the outbreak worsened as her state battles 41 community cases less than a week out from Christmas.
On Saturday night, the situation did get worse.
A NSW Health alert revealed positive COVID-19 cases travelled beyond the Northern Beaches and into the inner-city, inner west and western suburbs.
NSW Health s terrifying list of potentially infected locations has soared to 70. This map highlights Homebush, St Peters, Erskineville and Surry Hills among the newly identified