Live coronavirus updates: A café in south-west Sydney is the latest establishment to close after a COVID-19 case was confirmed to have visited last week
A café in south-west Sydney is the latest establishment to close after a COVID-19 case was confirmed to have visited last week.
"We have a duty of care to protect our guests, staff and local community," the cafe wrote in a post on Facebook on Wednesday night. "We ask anyone who has visited Frankie’s Milperra since 12pm on Thursday the 9th of July to please go get tested if you are concerned or showing any symptoms.It's not yet clear if the patron is linked to Sydney's swelling Crossroads Hotel cluster, although it's likely.In perhaps the strongest statement yet by a major US company about the importance of face masks, Walmart will require all of its customers to wear face coverings starting next week.
Shortly after the announcement, the National Retail Federation said it hoped Walmart's move was a "tipping point in this public health debate" and urged all other retailers to enact the same requirement. The trade group cited the dangers that the customers who do not wear masks posed to retail workers.
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