World News – AU – NSW to call Christmas Day restrictions

NSW health officials will determine what restrictions apply to movement and gatherings on Christmas Day after a day of recording testing. There have been only 21 cases of COVID-19 at the national level across the country

In NSW, eight cases of the virus have been recorded in the community, including seven related to the Northern Beaches outbreak and a nurse involved in transporting patients to hotel quarantine

ACT authorities will be closely monitoring NSW’s announcement after the Avalon beaches cluster grows to 90 cases

ACT Policing first occupied the federal freeway surveillance on Tuesday in a “booze-bus style”

for people from Sydney who violate the public health order

Additional police officers were dispatched to patrol Manuka Oval on Tuesday evening to prevent cricket fans from Sydney’s coronavirus hotspots from sneaking into the venue

More than 300 people will be forced to self-quarantine in Canberra after declaring they will be at NSW hotspots of Greater Sydney, the Central Coast and Wollongong

ACT Health has received more than 860 self-declaration forms, but many of these people do not need to be quarantined as they only drive through Sydney on their way to Canberra

NSW Prime Minister Gladys Berejiklian said the regional NSW would be unlikely to see any changes to its restrictions on Wednesday and the announcement would cover the future of the lockdown in the northern beach area and the restriction on the gathering of 10 people in households in the Greater Sydney

The number of exposure sites has expanded to include the regional NSW A traveler returning to Victoria from the northern beaches stops at Oliver’s Real Food in Gundagai on Friday before testing positive over the weekend

Another person who later tested positive was in multiple locations in Orange on Saturday

While signs indicated some restrictions were being relaxed by Christmas Day, thousands of people are likely still in self-isolation rather than spending the occasion with loved ones

Despite the small number of cases, Ms. Berejiklian said the threat of future cases outside the suburbs around the original outbreak remained

“What continues to worry us is that the number of venues affected is increasing, although the case numbers are relatively low compared to the experience of the past few days because if you have people with the virus who have visited the venues outside of the For the northern beach community, it’s increasingly important to ensure that none of these venues have a permanent seeding event, ”she said
Ahead of Tuesday night’s Big Bash clash, Canberra venues blocked people from Sydney and the surrounding region who were participating in the game after traveler quarantine rules went into effect

Fans from the affected areas of NSW had canceled their tickets to the Sydney Thunder-Perth Scorchers clash, and police were called in to prevent banned spectators from entering the venue

Fans from the affected areas of NSW have canceled their tickets to the Sydney Thunder-Perth Scorchers clash

Ticket holders who can prove that they do not come from one of the designated regional authorities of NSW are allowed to participate

Venues Matt Elkins, Canberra’s chief operating officer, said event staff, including the media, cleaners, catering and security, were required to fill out a registration form upon arrival at Manuka Oval

Individuals coming to ACT from Greater Sydney, the Central Coast and Wollongong must be quarantined for 14 days to protect Canberra from the northern beaches

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