New South Wales has recorded 35 new Covid cases on Saturday as the Bondi cluster grows to 261.
Premier Gladys Berejiklian confirmed the cases in a press conference on Saturday morning after 56,331 people were tested.
The 35 new cases are the highest number of infections recorded in a single day since the initial outbreak in 2020 but the premier and her Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant said the green shoots are there . We are relieved, the cases are not as bad as they could have been, Ms Berejiklian said.
Greater Sydney remains in lockdown until Friday but there are still fears it will be extended as sewage testing shows the virus is in south-west and western Sydney despite no known cases being recorded there.
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The anatomy of a firestorm: Researchers use radar to peer into a bushfire phenomenon
SunSunday 27
DecDecember 2020 at 3:26am
A violent column of moist hot air developed over the Dunalley fire, combining with an unstable atmosphere.
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Tasmanians know all too well the impact of the 2013 Dunalley bushfire on the ground, but for the first time, research has revealed what happened above the town on that fateful day.
The time was 3.24pm on January 4, and the bushfire was already burning out of control. Several factors created the perfect storm.
Over the next 24 minutes, a violent column of moist hot air developed over the fire, combining with an unstable atmosphere.