NSW records eight new local coronavirus cases as authorities continue to mull Christmas lockdown sbs.com.au - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sbs.com.au Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian will meet on Wednesday morning with her crisis Cabinet to determine what restrictions will be in place for Christmas to contain Sydney s coronavirus outbreak.
The meeting, scheduled to begin at 8am, will determine whether people in Sydney s Northern Beaches, the centre of the latest outbreak, will spend Christmas in lockdown or not.
It will also consider whether the limit on the number of household visitors for the Greater Sydney region should be lifted from 10 to 20 people. Clearly we are very much in the hands of (NSW Chief Medical Officer) Dr Kerry Chant and the public health team, Health Minister Brad Hazzard said.
Mr Foley said a major operation was underway at Victorian airports for today s expected mass return. We have got people to meet Victorians returning at the airport. he said. We have testing available at the airport. We will give people support if they get home before midnight tonight to both test within the first 24 hours and to safely isolate at home. But after that time we are saying to anyone please don t come to Melbourne, please don t come to Victoria. The disruption of another wave of infections in Victoria could be catastrophic and we will take all the steps we need to to keep our community safe.
Do not travel to Sydney, Victorian health minister warns residents as Northern Beaches coronavirus cluster grows sbs.com.au - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sbs.com.au Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Victoria Police is preparing to set up checkpoints on the NSW border and the state government will ask for military assistance as it moves to implement tougher measures to protect Victoria from Sydney s growing COVID-19 cluster.
Senior Victorian officials were locked in discussions late on Saturday night about hardening border restrictions with NSW and enforcing tougher testing measures as thousands of travellers from Sydney arrived in the state.
Government sources with direct knowledge of the talks, who declined to comment on the record, said Victoria Police would step up checks at the road border and a request would be made for Australian Defence Force assistance with the operation.