WA tightens border as NSW outbreak spreads to Victoria
Key Points
- Sydney’s lockdown is being extended by two weeks at least.
- NSW reported 97 new cases, 24 people were infectious while in the community.
- Victoria reports seven new cases linked to NSW, MCG listed as exposure site.
- WA shuts its border to Victoria as the south-eastern state faces a small outbreak.
- All Victorian AFL teams will be tested for the coronavirus.
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And that’s a wrap
Another day of rolling COVID-19 updates has come to an end, so we’re closing down the Need To Know blog until tomorrow.
In case you missed it, a quick rundown of the day’s biggest developments:
- Greater Sydney’s lockdown will be extended for another two weeks after NSW recorded 97 new cases, the second-highest daily total in the outbreak.
- Victoria has recorded seven new cases linked to a pair of NSW removalists and a family that has returned from Sydney.
- New exposure sites in Melbourne include the MCG, with 2000 people who were at the Carlton v Geelong match now being contacted.
- Victorians will be forced to undergo 14-day quarantine upon arrival in Western Australia, effective immediately.
- All Victorian AFL teams will be tested for the coronavirus, including the Geelong Cats who were on their way to Perth to play Fremantle.
- WA’s border to NSW will likely remain shut until September.
- South Australian health authorities are investigating a potential quarantine breach in one of their medi-hotels after a man is believed to have caught COVID-19 from another returned traveller on the same floor.
- Vivid Sydney, scheduled for September, has been pushed back by a month.
- More than 12 per cent of the eligible Australian population over 16 has had two vaccine doses and is fully vaccinated.
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