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If curators can produce something approaching last year’s lively pitch, the 70,000 expected in Melbourne could be in a for a Boxing Day treat

Ten cases were reported overall - but four of them were already announced on Thursday.   The Victorian Department of Health confirmed all the cases were linked to known outbreaks and announced there were 36 active cases in the state. The figure comes after 33,129 Covid-19 tests were conducted and 17,188 vaccines administered in the last 24 hours.      Victorians awoke to their first day of a five-day long lockdown on Friday amid fears that restrictions will be extended for several more weeks as a Covid outbreak, which began in Sydney, wreaks havoc across Melbourne. Up to four footy fan...

Liverpool Hospital and Westmead Hospital in Sydney have been hit by Covid-19  A pregnant woman tested positive on Wednesday after cesarean at Liverpool  A doctor at hospital has also tested positive, forcing non urgent surgery to stop Nurse in Westmead Hospital has caught virus and cleaners are refusing to clean More than 70 paramedics have been forced into isolation as close contacts 

Sydney's exposure sites surged past 400 as New South Wales recorded 97 new Covid cases on Friday.   Premier Gladys Berejiklian held crisis talks about tightening Sydney's lockdown restrictions after 29 of those cases were out in the community for the entire time while infectious. NSW Health said 49 of the infections are household contacts and 14 are close contacts. Sixty-seven (69 per cent) of the new cases were found in south-west Sydney. Health officials also found 14 cases of Covid-19 in south-east Sydney in the 24 hours to 8pm on Thursday night and nine in the city's west.  There are ...