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FILE PHOTO: People wait in line at a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) testing clinic at Mona Vale Hospital in the wake of a new outbreak in the Northern Beaches area of Sydney, Australia, December 18, 2020. REUTERS/Loren Elliott
SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia s most populous state on Monday reported its lowest one-day rise in new COVID-19 cases in three days, stoking cautious optimism that authorities have contained an outbreak in Sydney s northern beachside suburbs.
New South Wales (NSW) said 15 people had tested positive for COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, down from the 36 infections detected a day earlier and bringing the total cases in the northern beaches outbreak to 83.
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Mandatory vaccines for travel would ‘kill’ sector
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The rollout of vaccines against COVID-19 has intensified debate about whether they should be made mandatory, with the head of a major tourism lobby saying that doing so would cause irreparable harm to the struggling sector.
“I don’t think governments will require vaccination next year” for travel, World Travel and Tourism Council CEO Gloria Guevara told a press conference on Thursday. “If they do that, they will kill their sector.”
Those first in line to get the jabs include the elderly and vulnerable, who “are the last people who will travel,” she said.