COVID-19 restrictions extended in NSW miragenews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from miragenews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A COVID-19 outbreak at a food distribution wholesaler in Sydney s inner-west has authorities on edge after it was revealed a number of staff members have tested positive.
Two staff members at Great Ocean Foods in Marrickville have so far tested positive for the virus, while several are believed to have visited the site without checking in, Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant said. We are mopping up a train of transmission, she said.
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Great Ocean Foods in Marrickville(Google Maps) There have been a number of people that have been infectious in the community unknowingly for a period of time and those individuals could have then already. infected their families.
NSW Premier put Greater Sydney into a 14-day lockdown from 6pm Saturday
Strict new stay-at-home public health order is due to end at midnight on July 9
If case numbers fall NSW Health officials will consider loosening restrictions
Gladys Berejiklian said the measures needed to halt community transmission
Delta strain of coronavirus said to be far stronger than previous Covid versions
Greater Sydney COVID-19 restrictions extended miragenews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from miragenews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Gladys Berejiklian resisted calls to lock down the whole of Sydney and New South Wales on Friday and instead shut down four local government areas, preserving freedom for at least seven million Australians.
Throughout the pandemic the NSW premier has tried to keep businesses open and the economy functioning while her counterparts in Queensland, Victoria and Western Australia have repeatedly shut down their entire states over just a handful of localised cases.
And after 22 new cases of the India Delta variant were recorded on Friday, the head of the Australian Medical Association, Dr Omar Khorshid, again demanded the whole of Sydney be locked down - even though there was only one person in ICU.