An apartment block in Sydney’s west is under lockdown after a number of residents tested positive to COVID-19
.Police arrived at the site overnight following a request from health authorities.
NSW has recorded more than 100 new, locally acquired cases of coronavirus every day for the past five days. Ten people have now died as a result of the current outbreak.“The good news is we haven’t seen exponential growth [in the last little while],” Professor Halton told the“The bad news is the numbers are not coming down. What we need to see is a different strategy and we need to see it pretty soon.
“I’m sorry, Sydney. But if you’re going to get out of this in the next two months, that’s what we need to see.”‘Wrong morally’: Official photo of Ben Roberts-Smith was altered to hide Crusader’s crossFormer special forces soldier Ben Roberts-Smith displayed a contentious Crusader’s cross on his uniform while on duty in Afghanistan, with the symbol later digitally removed by the Department of Defence in a widely distributed photo of the decorated war veteran.
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