All the latest Covid news from the Northern Rivers

Lockdowns, charges, and latest exposure location, all you need to know about the Covid situation on the Northern Rivers, in one place.

The car park at Lismore Base Hospital was full on Monday, August 9.

• Three confirmed Covid patients on the Northern Rivers

• Three confirmed Covid patients on the Northern Rivers

• No new cases recorded to 8pm, Wednesday August 11

• Sydney man who came to the Northern Rivers and tested positive to Covid-19 charged with 7 offences

• Residents of Lismore, Byron, Ballina and Richmond Valley Local Government Areas in lockdown until at least 12.01am, Tuesday August 17.

• Twenty Covid exposure sites listed on the Northern Rivers

• 14 PINs issued in two days for breaches of Public Health Orders

• Testing clinic locations across the Northern Rivers.

Update 12.30pm: NSW Police deputy commissioner Michael Willing said additional compliance measures may be put in place in the areas under lockdown, closing any loopholes that may have allowed the virus to spread from Sydney.

“I have spoken to Commissioner Fuller, he is working with a team of government officials, including Public Health, to determine what those additional measures may look like, and he will present back to crisis cabinet tomorrow afternoon,” he said.

“What I can say, is that our ongoing compliance operation is occurring across the state.”

The Deputy Commissioner said in the last 24 hours to 11am Thursday, 407 people received infringement notices for breaches to the Public Health Orders.

176 of those were issued to people not wearing face masks.

14 PINs were issued this week on the Northern Rivers, two of them in Mullumbimby.

The NSW Premier said all the vaccines that were redirected to Year 12 students in Metropolitan Sydney have been returned to regional NSW areas.

“All of those vaccines have already been returned,” she said.

“I want to assure communities that we are making available all the vaccines that we have available, and I really want to thanks communities for responding.

“The uptake in vaccines in NSW has been outstanding in the last week.”

A Ballina pharmacy confirmed it will start offering Astra Zeneca Covid vaccines from Monday.

Update 11.05am: There were no new cases of community transmission reported for the Northern Rivers overnight.

NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian confirmed NSW recorded 345 cases of community transmision at 8pm last night, with 60 of them infectious while they were in the community.

The premier also confirmed two people died overnight, both men in the 90s.

NSW recorded 152,000 tests and 106,000 vaccinations on Wednesday.

Update 10.30am: QLD authorities have hinted that tighter border controls may be put in place as the Covid outbreak spreads to regional Australia.

The QLD Government said it will be monitoring the Covid outbreak closely in coming days.

Annastacia Palaszczuk said she and deputy premier Steven Miles would have a conference call with mayors at border communities to discuss the tight border measures, and urged QLDers to avoid all travel into NSW.

“We will be monitoring the situation extremely closely over the next 24 to 48 hours, we do not want to see that as far as creeping north,” Ms Palaszczuk said.

“If we have to implement harder measures, we will… I am urging Queenslanders, do not go into New South Wales… now was not the time to cross the border to do your shopping.”

She added health officials would look to boost vaccine availability for border communities.

Original story: The Sydney man at the centre of a Covid scare on the Northern Rivers has been charged with seven offences for breaching Public Health Orders.

The man and his two children tested positive after being infectious in the community for eight days.

Difficulty in determining where the three travelled meant four Local Government Areas were plunged into a week long lockdown from 6pm, Monday August 9 until at least 12.01am, Tuesday August 17.

Residents of Lismore, Byron, Ballina and Richmond Valley LGAs are in lockdown under public health orders.

Police have increased compliance checks in the area and issued a number of infringement notices over the past two days.

So far, NSW Health has released 20 locations and times where an infectious person visited.

The region is bracing for more locations to be released, but residents are urged not to wait to find out if they are a contact, but to get tested immediately if they have even the slightest symptoms, and to isolate until the results come back.

More testing clinics are opening to meet the expected demand.