MORNING BRIEFING: Border officials order Ruby Princess to leave Australian waters this afternoon, while NSW Police investigates the death of a 33-year-old inmate at Parklea Correctional Centre.
The Ruby Princess is due to leave Australian waters today, five weeks after it was allowed to dock in Sydney,The coronavirus-afflicted cruise will leave from Port Kembla this afternoon after being given an order to leave by Australian Border Force officials.
Yesterday, 115 more crew members were allowed to disembark and were placed into 14 days of quarantine in Sydney hotels. Twenty-one of them tested positive for COVID-19.A 33-year-old inmate at Parklea Correctional Centre in Sydney's north-west has been stabbed to death. Emergency services were called to the prison just before 12:30pm on Wednesday after reports of an assault.Officers from Quakers Hill Police Command established a crime scene and detectives launched an investigation.
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