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Sydney tightens lockdown as Australia s COVID-19 cases rise
By Byron Kaye
Reuters
SYDNEY (Reuters) -The Australian city of Sydney on Saturday ordered a shutdown of building sites, banned non-essential retail and threatened fines for employers who make staff come into the office as new COVID-19 cases kept rising three weeks into a citywide lockdown.
Authorities in New South Wales state, of which Sydney is the capital, also banned hundreds of thousands of people in the city s western suburbs - the worst affected area - from leaving their immediate neighbourhoods for work, as they recorded 111 new cases in the prior 24 hours, up from 97 the day before.
The Australian city of Sydney has ordered a shutdown of building sites, banned non-essential retail and threatened fines for employers who make staff come into the office as new COVID-19 cases kept rising three weeks into a citywide lockdown.
Authorities in New South Wales state, of which Sydney is the capital, on Saturday also banned hundreds of thousands of people in the city’s western suburbs – the worst affected area – from leaving their immediate neighbourhoods for work, as they recorded 111 new cases in the prior 24 hours, up from 97 the day before.
The state also recorded an additional death from the virus, taking the total to three since the start of the year and the national total to 913 since the pandemic began.
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Sydney s COVID-19 outbreak has breached the Victorian border again, with two members of a Melbourne family testing positive after returning home.
Victoria s COVID Commander Jeroen Weimar said three of the family of four from the City of Hume arrived on a flight from Sydney on 4 July carrying red zone permits.
The other re-entered the state by road on 8 July.
They all initially tested negative shortly after arrival but two became symptomatic and were tested on Sunday, with the results coming back positive on Monday morning.
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The flight has not been listed as an exposure site as the three family members tested negative two days later and all other passengers remain in isolation as fellow red zone returnees.