NSW will further tighten gathering restrictions and Premier Gladys Berejiklian has foreshadowed a possible further extension of Greater Sydney’s lockdown after the state recorded 44 new local COVID-19 cases. Covid
Ms Berejiklian announced further tightened restrictions for the areas already in lockdown, saying with current vaccination levels “we will see thousands and thousands of hospitalisations and death” if the virus is allowed to circulate.You can only exercise within your local government area, or within 10 kilometres of where you liveFrom Sunday, funerals back down to 10 attendees
“Unless there’s a dramatic turnaround in the numbers, I can’t see how we’ll be in a position to ease restrictions by next Friday. “This trend has to be turned around and the only way we can do so is by seeing a decline in numbers.” All affected patients have tested negative to date and are isolating at the hospital in single rooms.
Eleven of those are close contact sites, meaning anyone who attended at the relevant times must immediately get tested and isolate for 14 days no matter the result.
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