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ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JULY 01, 2021 - Lines of cars and health workers at the Victoria Park Covid testing clinic in Adelaide. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Brenton Edwards

SA outbreak grows to 16 cases

South Australia remains ‘on track’ to come out of lockdown on time after it recorded one new locally acquired case of Covid-19.

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Aussie teen gets $20,000 for corn chip

A Gold Coast teenager has nabbed $20,000 for a unique corn chip she found in a packet of Doritos that went viral on Tik Tok.

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BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JULY 2, 2021: Drivers line up for Covid testing at the Gladstone Medical Centre in Brisbane. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Tertius Pickard

Qld records zero new Covid-19 cases

No new local Covid-19 cases have been recorded in Queensland, during a nervous wait after a flight attendant worked on six flights while possibly infectious.

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Zac (left) tested positive to Covid-19 after attending the Wallabies match at AAMI Park. Picture: 9News

‘Shocked’: Covid-19 positive man speaks out

A Melbourne man has spoken out about contracting Covid-19 while watching the rugby superspreader game with his godfather.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - JULY 22: Police officers walk past a shop at Bronte Beach on July 22, 2021 in Sydney, Australia. Lockdown restrictions have been further tightened as NSW continues to record new community COVID-19 cases and work to stop the spread of the highly infectious delta coronavirus strain in the community. New rules which came into effect at midnight on Saturday across Greater Sydney including the Central Coast, Blue Mountains, Wollongong and Shellharbour require all non-essential retail to close. Businesses can still operate click and collect, takeaway and home delivery. In addition to stay at home orders, residents in the local government areas of Fairfield, Canterbury-Bankstown and Liverpool cannot leave their areas for work except for emergency services and healthcare workers. Where those workers do need to leave their local government area for work, they are required to be tested every three days, even if they do not have symptoms. Residents of Greater Sydney, the Blue Mountains, the Central Coast and Wollongong are subject to stay-at-home orders with people are only permitted to leave their homes for essential reasons. Essential reasons include purchasing essential goods, accessing or providing care or healthcare, essential work, education or exercise. Exercise is restricted to within the local government area and no further than 10km from home and with a maximum of two people per group. Browsing in shops is prohibited and only one person per household can leave home for shopping per day. Outdoor public gatherings are limited to two people, while funerals are limited to 10 people only. The restrictions are expected to remain in place until 11:59 pm on Friday 30 July. (Photo by Jenny Evans/Getty Images)

Why Sydney is in so much trouble

As NSW records its worst day of infections so far, a single super spreader event shows people still aren‘t getting the message and are risking everything.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA- NewsWire Photos 14 JULY 2021 : People line up in their cars at the Melbourne Showgrounds to get tested for Covid-19. Sydney's coronavirus cluster has spread to Melbourne. Picture : NCA NewsWire / Ian Currie

Urgent alert for 4 Melbourne suburbs

Victoria has recorded 12 new local Covid-19 cases, but there’s been a ‘strong new’ detection of the virus in wastewater that’s concerning.

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos OCTOBER 05, 2020 - Pictured is the Westfield building in the Sydney CBD on Monday October 05, 2020. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Christian Gilles

Urgent Covid alert for busy Westfield

A South Australian Westfield and several supermarkets have been added to a ballooning list of exposure sites, as hundreds are forced into hotel quarantine.

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