NSW health authorities have implemented screening procedures at airports in a bid to prevent the spread of the coronavirus via visitors from Melbourne's virus hotspots.
NSW health authorities have implemented screening procedures at airports in a bid to prevent the spread of the coronavirus via visitors from Melbourne's virus hotspots. NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard announced on Thursday police would be scanning NSW roads for Victorian number plates and checking where drivers had arrived from.
He revealed a passenger who arrived in Sydney on Thursday morning on an XPT train was displaying virus symptoms and had boarded the train after being tested in Victoria. “Every now and then we find somebody who just doesn’t either understand or is prepared to thumb their nose at the rules,” he said. “Please, I appreciate there are pressures on everybody – but right now your obligation really should be to the while community.
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