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Sydney nursing home in lockdown after residents tested positive to Covid-19  Three residents tested positive at Summit Care's facility in Baulkham Hills All of them were vaccinated with Pfizer with two taken to Westmead Hospital Facility manager has revealed two thirds of workers at the site are vaccinated  It was announced vaccines will be mandatory for aged care workers on Monday 

Gladys Berejiklian has defended allowing florists and clothes stores to open without being hit with $5,000 fines during Sydney's lockdown.  Sydney, Wollongong, the Blue Mountains, and the Central Coast are in their second week of lockdown with Covid cases rising by 35 on Friday and 15 on Saturday.  Residents must stay at home unless they have to buy groceries, care for a loved one, visit the doctor, or go to work, and the government has requested that only essential services remain open for business. Some of questioned how many businesses that many would regard as non-essential have remaine...

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has warned Sydney's lockdown will fail unless people do more to reduce their movement, as the state records 24 new Covid-19 cases. Too many people are heading to work when they are unwell, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian says. Photo: AFP The premier said it was "a cause for concern" that half of the new cases had been out in the community while infectious. "If we want the lockdown to succeed, all of us have to minimise our movements," she said. "In too many examples we are seeing workers who are leaving the house with symptoms or going to work with symptoms.

Lockdown continues in Western Australia Western Australia recorded no new cases, with the premier, Mark McGowan, saying the lockdown for Perth and the Peel region had brought some time for contact tracers to get on top of any locally acquired cases. “This is amazingly encouraging news,” he said. “But we cannot afford to get complacent. So I’m appealing to every Western Australian: we need you to get tested.” McGowan raised concerns at overseas arrivals coming through the state, saying although hotel quarantine was safe, it still posed some risk. “We’ve done our utmost to make ho...