COVID NSW: No local cases for 18 days, Fairfield restaurant fined
NSW has recorded no locally transmitted cases for the 18th straight day. It comes as WA announced it won’t be relaxing it’s border restrictions with Victoria yet.
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No new local cases were detected in NSW in the 24 hours to 8pm Wednesday night, marking the 18th day in a row with no community transmission in the state.
The results came from 10,551 tests processed in the reporting period, compared to 11,816 the day before.
Three new cases were detected in hotel quarantine.
Meanwhile, passengers arriving on flights in Melbourne are now being screened on arrival at the airport after a hotel quarantine worker in Victoria tested positive to COVID last night.
Passengers will be checked for symptoms and asked if they have visited any locations of concern identified by Victorian authorities.
Authorities have also revealed there are five people now in NSW after they were quarantined at the Park Royal Hotel in Melbourne at the same time as the virus spread between guests’ rooms.
These five people have been contacted and told to go get tested and isolate for 14 days since they left the hotel.
WA RECORDS NO NEW CASES AMID LOCKDDOWN
Western Australia has recorded no new local cases of COVID-19 following the third full day of lockdown, WA Premier Mark McGowan has said.
Mr McGowan said the result is a “a remarkable achievement”.
He said that WA recorded “a total of 7,767 tests” yesterday.
“I have another ask of Western Australians. I need you to get tested,” he said.
It wasn’t immediately clear on Thursday afternoon how many tests conducted in the past days have been processed.
WA will also keep its border restrictions for travellers from Victoria following one case being detected in a hotel security worker in Melbourne.
The rules were set to be eased at midnight Perth time tonight, but that has now been “paused,” Mr McGowan said.
“This means travellers from Victoria will still need to self-quarantine for 14 days and undergo a day-11 test.
“It is possible that Victoria may need to go back to the medium-risk category.”
RESTAURANT FINED AFTER SECOND COVID BREACH
A venue in western Sydney which breached COVID restrictions twice has been fined $11,000.
Fairfield Heights restaurant Hammurabi was inspected by local police at 1:30pm yesterday after several complaints from local residents that the venue wasn’t following COVID-safe restrictions.
Officers discovered the restaurant on The Boulevarde, Fairfield Heights didn’t have working CCTV, which is against NSW planning laws, and spoke to a 43-year-old man at the venue, who could not show them a copy of Hammurabi’s COVID-Safe plan.
The venue was then slapped with a $5000 PIN for not following directions for corporations during the pandemic before being hit with another a $6000 penalty notice for development for not accord consent – any other case – corporation.
The restaurant’s Facebook pages lists it as a venue which caters for “Engagement, Christening, Birthday, Private Event, Holy Communion, Henna and Kitchen Party, Annual Event, Christmas and New Year Party … and more.”
The Daily Telegraph has approached Hammurabi for comment.
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