Northern Beaches Covid cluster swells to 122 with seven new infections recorded – as residents are plunged back into lockdown and infected firefighter tests positive and went to popular pub
- New South Wales recorded seven Covid-19 cases overnight bringing total to 122
- All new Covid-19 cases have been linked to Sydney’s northern beaches
- One case, a firefighter, is still under investigation with links to the Belrose Hotel
- Cases come as restrictions are reimposed across Sydney after Christmas break
New South Wales has recorded seven new Covid-19 cases overnight with all cases linked to Sydney’s Northern Beaches cluster.
State premier Gladys Berejiklian announced 24,000 people had been tested in the past 24 hours.
Six of the new cases have been linked to the Avalon cluster while the remaining case, a firefighter, is still under investigation.
The firefighter, who is from the Northern Beaches, had been tested on December 23.
Though NSW Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant said the results indicated he had been infected two to three weeks ago.
‘And then when we took a history from him as well as his mother, he had a very transient illness associated with a very short period of fever on the 10th of December.
‘So he basically came home from work, bit tired and then went to bed, woke up with a bit of a fever, took his temperature, was a bit of fever and then woke up the next morning and totally fine, no fever.’
The cases come as stay-at-home orders imposed on residents of Sydney’s northern beaches is reinstated after the conclusion of Christmas festivities.
After a three-day reprieve for small indoor Christmas gatherings, the Northern Beaches has from Sunday at 00.01 returned to restrictions barring indoor gatherings.
New South Wales has recorded seven new Covid-19 cases overnight with all cases linked to the northern beaches cluster
The changes mean Northern Beaches residents will be bound by the same rules they were on December 23.
If you live in the northern part of the Northern Beaches, you are allowed to have outdoor gatherings of just five, while southern areas can gather in groups of ten outside.
People may neither enter nor exit the local government area.
For the rest of Sydney as well as Wollongong, the Central Coast and Blue Mountains, ten-person private gathering restrictions again apply.
This was increased over the Christmas period to allow ten guests as well as unlimited numbers of children under ten.
The final rules for New Year’s Eve will be announced on December 30.
More to come
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