Sydney families have been reminded not to visit family and friends in aged care facilities this Father's Day despite an encouraging coronavirus update on Saturday
Sydney families have been reminded not to visit family and friends in aged care facilities this Father's Day despite an encouraging coronavirus update on Saturday with five new COVID-19 cases recorded and more than 30,000 tests.
Meanwhile, two men and a woman were arrested amid violent clashes at a "Freedom Day" 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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