NSW health authorities expect to announce more than 100 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday. So what does that mean for the Greater Sydney lockdown, which is meant to end on Friday?
New South Wales has recorded 77 new COVID-19 cases and one death, and the Premier doesn't expect the numbers to fall anytime soon."I'm anticipating the numbers in New South Wales will be greater than 100 tomorrow," she said.So what does this mean for Greater Sydney's lockdown, which is meant to end on Friday?New South Wales recorded 77 new COVID-19 cases in the 24 hours to 8:00pm on Saturday and its first death since December.
"Rather than having cases sit out there that are just becoming positive, we want to get them at the earlier time, because if we can get them just when they're becoming positive, they're less infectious."While the NSW Government hasn't directly said Friday's lockdown date will be extended, it has said it's likely.
"You should have basically hardly been out of the house, hardly been in contact with anyone else, and therefore we have confidence that the chain of transmission is really broken."
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