More than 1200 NSW Police officers will be taken off normal duties to enforce traveller quarantine at about 20 different hotels around Sydney from today, as stricter measures are put in place to ensure there are enough officers to carry the load if others contract COVID-19.
Frozen food factories, industrial warehouses and even pubs have been identified as sites for morgues across Sydney to deal the COVID-19 deaths, while another two venues have been earmarked as sites for “pop-up” hospitals.
Richard Buttrose – the nephew of media doyenne Ita Buttrose and former “cocaine dealer to the stars” – is dealing the white stuff again. Toilet paper that is.
He has been waiting for his day in court for almost two years on a charge of dealing with more than $1 million that police alleged was proceeds of crime. But Fadi Ibrahim will be forced to wait a little longer.
Lifeguards at Bondi Beach called police this morning when a man refused to leave the closed beach. The man then spat on police and claimed to have COVID-19. LIVE COVERAGE
Police will appeal bail given to a woman accused of spitting at and coughing on officers after claiming she was speeding to get tested for coronavirus.
One of Sydney’s top chefs has stripped his restaurants of valuable stock while another is now sleeping at his venue amid growing fears of looters robbing eateries forced to close because of the coronavirus crisis.
Two of Sydney’s top private schools have been rocked by the COVID-19 diagnosis of millionaire hotelier Marcus Levy, while he has been forced to deny claims he compromised their safety by failing to self-isolate in his luxury mansions.
A Facebook campaign targeting boarders at top private school Scots College has forced teachers to cut short a camping trip in the NSW Snowy Mountains.
As NSW residents fail to get the message about social distancing and 17,000 Australians are due to fly into Sydney in coming days, the Premier has turned to Police Commissioner Mick Fuller to lead the fight against the spread of the deadly coronavirus.
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