New South Wales records jump in COVID-19 cases
New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian has imposed tougher New Year’s Eve rules after 18 locally acquired cases of COVID-19 were recorded in the state overnight. Ms Berejiklian said 17,000 people were tested overnight, resulting in the identification of 18 new cases of community transmission, with nine of the infections being linked within the Avalon cluster. Ms Berejiklian said those nine people were close contacts within the Avalon cluster and are already in isolation. She said six cases were linked to what experts have called the “Croyden cluster" - and were all members of the same family and extended family group. “We also have three cases technically under investigation, one is linked to someone who was in the Northern Beaches and the other two cases are in Wollongong linked to those Wollongong cases," she said. Ms Berejiklian warned that the government doesn’t want New Year’s Eve to be the cause “of a superspreader” event. She announced the number of people allowed at outdoor gatherings in Greater Sydney has been brought down from 50 to 30 people. "All households in Greater Sydney, that includes Wollongong, the Central Coast, and the Nepean and Blue Mountains, as well as the southern part of the Northern Beaches, the southern zone ... will now be limited to five people per household on New Year's Eve," she said. "Obviously in the Northern Beaches you cannot welcome anybody to your home that's outside your zone".
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New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian has imposed tougher New Year’s Eve rules after 18 locally acquired cases of COVID-19 were recorded in the state overnight. Ms Berejiklian said 17,000 people were tested overnight, resulting in the identification of 18 new cases of community transmission, with nine of the infections being linked within the Avalon cluster. Ms Berejiklian said those nine people were close contacts within the Avalon cluster and are already in isolation. She said six cases were linked to what experts have called the “Croyden cluster" - and were all members of the same family and extended family group. “We also have three cases technically under investigation, one is linked to someone who was in the Northern Beaches and the other two cases are in Wollongong linked to those Wollongong cases," she said. Ms Berejiklian warned that the government doesn’t want New Year’s Eve to be the cause “of a superspreader” event. She announced the number of people allowed at outdoor gatherings in Greater Sydney has been brought down from 50 to 30 people. "All households in Greater Sydney, that includes Wollongong, the Central Coast, and the Nepean and Blue Mountains, as well as the southern part of the Northern Beaches, the southern zone ... will now be limited to five people per household on New Year's Eve," she said. "Obviously in the Northern Beaches you cannot welcome anybody to your home that's outside your zone".
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