Sydney families have been reminded not to visit loved ones in aged care facilities this Father's Day, as another school prepares to close on Monday after two students tested positive amid a growing cluster in the city's CBD | Rabe9 natassiazc jennynoise
On Saturday night, principal Maureen Ryan said the school is working closely with NSW Health to ensure the best precautions are in place to protect students and staff.
NSW Health's Christine Selvey said the CBD cluster was "still being brought under control", while one case in hotel quarantine brought the total new cases in the 24 hours to 8pm Friday to five. Meanwhile, two men and a woman were arrested amid violent clashes at an anti-lockdown protest in Sydney's CBD on Saturday.
A day after the national cabinet failed to come to an agreement on the definition of a COVID-19 hotspot, Queensland Health Minister Steven Miles doubled down on his state's refusal to open borders to NSW and Victoria unless they had 28 days without community transmission.NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian had warned Queensland that no state had an excuse to keep its border closed with her state under the preliminary definitions of a hotspot.
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