Breaking: Sydney's 30 local government areas have been declared coronavirus hotspots by the Northern Territory. Travellers will be forced into mandatory quarantine from Friday for 14 days
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Mr Andrews said the state's increasing hospitalisation numbers - there are 105 people in hospital and 27 in intensive care - were "of great concern".Kate AubussonOn the contentious issue of masks, NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard said he supported their use if people were in a public space where they could not maintain social distancing.
"I am far from relaxed. This is a critical period for us and I need the cooperation of the public for that two-week period," she said. "Nobody wanted this, everybody hoped that by now corona would be under control down south," Chief Minister Michael Gunner told reporters this morning. Visitors from other locations who only transit through Sydney Airport or complete continuous vehicle travel through the hotspot areas will be exempt from the quarantine.
Victoria's Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton has said the state's case numbers could begin to decrease notably by the end of this week, but said there was still the chance of an “explosive” increase in numbers if rules were not followed by the public. Jennie Musto – described as NSW Health’s "chief virus detective" – has said it was due to thorough interviews conducted with a Liverpool case and a Nepean case that her team was able to pinpoint the Crossroads Hotel as the source of the state's new COVID cluster.“This is where it all began,” she said.
NSW Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant said they hoped to find that all the cases detected in Sydney are genomic matches.
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