NSW health authorities are scrambling to trace the movements and contacts of a western Sydney taxi driver that may have spread COVID-19 across the city. 9News
It comes as NSW today recorded two new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours to 8pm.
Of the new cases, one is a returned overseas traveller in hotel quarantine and the other believed to be the taxi driver. Tragically one more person has died of the virus, a man aged in his 70s linked to the Sydney CBD cluster, taking NSW's toll to 55.Korean BBQ restaurant fined after diners caught sharing crockery, utensilsNSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has confirmed that the latest coronavirus death in the state is a man in his early 70s.
Speaking ahead of a bushfire preparation campaign, Ms Berejiklian said the man caught the virus from one of the clusters that emerged in Sydney's CBD."We had over 13,500 tests and we do see a bit of a dip on the weekend, so can I please ask everybody to come forward and get tested even today, don't wait until tomorrow," Ms Berejiklian said.
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