Coronavirus Australia live news: Business people may be first allowed out; NSW to scrap 50-person limit

Australians travelling for ‘international benefit’ may be among the first allowed overseas without quarantine, as NSW and Victoria move to next phase of easing.

Olivia Caisley and Kieran Gair

19 min read

4:21PMJune 14, 2020.

Updated 12:59AMJune 15, 2020

Business travellers could be among the first people allowed to go overseas without facing quarantine.

Beijing outbreak centred on food market
Refugee advocates defy health warnings
Doctor infectious while at three clinics
Sydney school shut, students self-isolate

Welcome to live coverage of the continuing coronavirus crisis. Beijing’s largest wholesale food market is the centre of a new coronavirus cluster that has seen more than 50 positive tests, forcing the lockdown of 11 residential communities.

Jacquelin Magnay 10.45pm: Churchill's Google timeline hiatus

Winston Churchill’s wartime service has been erased in Google’s timeline of British prime ministers.

A Google search on Sunday for “British prime ministers’’ found only Churchill’s post-war tenure from 1951 to 1955, unlike his predecessor Clement Attlee and successor Anthony Eden.

Initial searches returned a blank headshot but Winston Churchill’s picture was later restored throughout Sunday evening.

The airbrushing of history occurred a day after one of the most famous statues of Churchill was boarded up on the orders of London mayor Sadiq Khan. Mr Khan issued the order to protect the statue in Trafalgar Square from further vandalism during Black Lives Matter and far-right protests. Last week the statue was spray-painted to say Churchill “was a racist’’.

More than 12 hours after Churchill’s “editing’’, the Google Search Liaison tweeted that it was aware an image for Britain’s great wartime leader was missing.

Weâ€™ve now resolved the issue that was preventing the picture of Sir Winston Churchill from being updated to appear in his knowledge panel and Knowledge Graph-related lists. Again, this was not purposeful. Our apologies for the concerns caused. pic.twitter.com/qoH2tEWhhq
— Google SearchLiaison (@searchliaison) June 14, 2020

Google claimed it would explore why an automatic update caused Churchill to disappear.

Full story: Churchill’s wartime service erased in Google timeline

Rosie Lewis, Sarah Elks 9.05pm: Trans-Tasman bubble gets ‘green lane’

Australian and New Zealand passengers flying in the “trans-Tasman bubble” will use so-called green lanes separating them from other international travellers to protect them from those who may have COVID-19.

A proposal being seriously considered by the Morrison and Ardern governments suggests airlines would also have to refund passengers if they became unwell between booking their flight and travelling so as to deter people from flying while sick.

Boarding would take longer to ensure there were not big queues and people could remain socially distanced, while masks and gloves would be offered to passengers who wanted them and hospital-grade air filters used on board to minimise the likelihood of virus transmission.

AFP 8.35pm: Iran’s daily deaths top 100 for first time in two months

Iran reported more than 100 coronavirus deaths in a single day for the first time in two months on Sunday.

In televised remarks, Health Ministry spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari announced 107 COVID-19 fatalities in the previous 24 hours, raising the country’s toll to 8837.

Joseph Lam 7.15pm: Chinese whistleblower’s widow gives birth

The widow of Chinese doctor Li Wenliang, who was arrested for “spreading rumours” of a mystery new illness in December, has given birth.

Wuhan ophthalmologist Li Wenliang Picture: supplied

The 33-year-old doctor’s widow, Fu Xuejie, gave birth to the couple’s second son in the early hours of Friday at a hospital in Wuhan, the Hong Kong newspaper The South China Morning Post reported.

On the Chinese social media platform WeChat, Xuejie Fu Xuejie wrote: “My husband, can you see us from heaven? The last gift you gave me was born today — I will work hard to love and protect them.”

Dr Wenliang was pronounced dead by Wuhan City Central Hostpial on February 6. His death sparked international outrage over Beijing’s early response to the COVID-19 outbreak.

AFP 6.15pm: China reports 57 new cases as Beijing cluster grows

China reported 57 new cases of the coronavirus on Sunday, the highest daily figure since April, as concerns grew about a resurgence of the disease.

The domestic outbreak in China had been brought largely under control through strict lockdowns that were imposed early this year — but a new cluster has been linked to a wholesale food market in south Beijing.

The National Health Commission said 36 of the new cases were local transmissions in the capital, and Beijing health officials said later that all three dozen were linked to the Xinfadi market.

The other two domestic infections reported on Sunday were in northeastern Liaoning province and were close contacts of the Beijing cases.

The new cluster has prompted fresh lockdowns with people ordered to stay home in 11 residential estates near the market, which supplies most of the city’s fresh produce.

City official Xu Hejian said Beijing had entered an “extraordinary period”.

Agencies 4.15pm: New freight routes for COVID-hit farmers

The federal government has helped to secure two direct freight routes to Hong Kong and Singapore for south east Queensland farmers to get their produce into key overseas export markets.

From Sunday, Cathay Pacific will start a weekly direct freight flight carrying local beef, pork, eggs, fruit and vegetables from Toowoomba’s Wellcamp Airport to Hong Kong.

The flights will carry between 30-40 tonnes of local produce each week.

From Friday, Singapore Airlines will also start a weekly freight flight between Toowoomba and Singapore, carrying between 30-40 tonnes of local produce. Federal Trade Minister Simon Birmingham said that the COVID-19 pandemic had created barriers for exporters and these flights would make it easier for local farmers to get their high-quality produce overseas.

“With very few passenger planes flying overseas at present, we need to make sure local farmers and producers across south east Queensland still have avenues to get their produce over to their overseas customers,” Minister Birmingham said in a statement on Sunday.

Agencies 3.55pm: Scene of fatal police shooting goes up in flames

The Wendy’s restaurant in Atlanta where a police officer fatally shot a black man has been burnt to the ground by angry protesters.

The unrest broke out after dark in Atlanta, where earlier on Saturay Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said she had accepted the prompt resignation of police chief Erika Shields over the death on Friday night of 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks at the Wendy’s.

"RIP Rayshard" is spray painted on a sign as as flames engulf a Wendy's restaurant where Rayshard Brooks was shot and killed by police.

Images on local television showed the restaurant in flames for more than 45 minutes before fire crews arrived to extinguish the blaze, protected by a line of police officers. By that time the building was reduced to charred rubble next to a petrol station.

Read the full story here.

Robyn Ironside 3pm: Business travellers may be the first allowed out

Business people travelling for “international benefit” could be among the first to be allowed to leave Australia’s shores without facing two-weeks of quarantine when they return.

With the ban on Australians travelling overseas extended until September 17, there is mounting pressure for the federal government to make certain exemptions.

Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt said there were “two pathways” being explored for the resumption of international travel and the government would be guided by medical advice.

“One is to use our quarantine system with international students and appropriately with people who are delivering international benefit whether that’s in business or other areas,” Mr Hunt said.

Grounded Qantas planes at Sydney Airport. Picture: Damian Shaw

“Secondly is where we have a safe relationship with another country, and New Zealand is at the top of the list, having a non-quarantine approach which will open up borders.”

He said there was “a bit more work to be done” and it was unlikely any international travel would be allowed until domestic borders reopened.

Canberra has been under significant pressure from universities to develop a plan to bring international students to Australia to resume their courses, and pilots have joined the chorus.

Will Glasgow 2.30pm: Suspicions over Aussie actor’s Chinese death penalty

Chinese lawyers believe the death sentence given to Australian actor-turned serial entrepreneur Karm Gilespie seven years after he was arrested on drug trafficking charges is linked to the parlous state of the bilateral relationship.

Mr Gilespie, 55 — a stage actor who once had a recurring role on Australian police show Blue Heelers — was arrested with 7.5 kilograms of the drug ice in his luggage at Guangzhou Baiyun Airport in December 2013, according to reports by Chinese media published on Saturday.

Actor Karm Gilespie has been sentenced to to death in China for drug trafficking

That was three months after Tony Abbott was elected prime minister and his government was negotiating a free-trade agreement with China.

Read the full story here.

Kieran Gair 1.50pm: Virus ship to leave WA early this week

WA has reported no new cases of COVID-19 overnight, with the state’s total number of cases remaining at 602.

There are currently 11 active cases in WA and that tally includes five locals and six crew members from the Al Kuwait livestock carrier, all of whom are in hotel quarantine.

The Al Kuwait livestock vessel remains in Fremantle and will likely leave for the Middle East early this week after the federal government granted an exemption to its live export ban.

The Al Kuwait docked in Fremantle on May 22 and had been set to take 56,000 sheep before crew members began testing positive to COVID-19.

The Al Kuwait, a live export ship docked in Fremantle harbour.

The local port workers who went aboard the ship have almost completed their home isolation period and have so far tested negative.

582 people have recovered from the virus in WA and there have been 141,905 tests, including 476 tests performed on Saturday.

Sarah Elks 1.10pm: Queensland aims for July border reopening

Queensland’s border will be likely be reopened on July 10 to the rest of Australia, though an early reopening that would exclude Victorians has been considered.

Deputy Premier and Health Minister Steven Miles and Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young said the state was on track to end its interstate border closure on July 10, in accordance with its published roadmap.

Dr Young: “At this point in time, it’s been clear in our roadmap that’s been published for many months, 10 July is the proposed date, unless something was very different, either way.”

“If things were a lot better, of course we could bring that date forward...or if something were to happen interstate, I’m sure everyone would expect that we then push that date out.”

Dr Young said the level of community transmission in Victoria would be a key part of the decision, to be made at the end of the month.

Health Minister Mr Miles said some work had been done to see if the border could be reopened to all Australians but not Victorians.

“Some work has been done on how logistically that could be done...our preference would be to lift our borders all at once, hopefully on the 10th of July, depending on that assessment,” Mr Miles said.

A travel bubble excluding Victoria before July 10 was possible, but “very unlikely” and difficult to enforce, Mr Miles said.

Sarah Elks 12.20pm: Queensland to clear elective surgery backlog

The Queensland government will spend $250m to clear some elective surgery waiting lists that built up over the coronavirus pandemic, allowing patients to be operated on at night, on weekends and in private hospitals.

The state recorded no new cases of coronavirus overnight, with the total remaining at 1065. One person remains in hospital in intensive care and requiring ventilation.

More than 3700 were tested in the past day.

Cataract surgeries, joint replacements, painful hernias, troublesome tonsils and sinus problems have been put on hold for months

As at the end of May, the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital had an extra 600 patients as part of a backlog that had built up waiting for elective surgeries over the pandemic.

Cataract surgeries, joint replacements, painful hernias, troublesome tonsils and sinus problems have been put on hold for months, after the Prime Minister’s directive to pause non-urgent surgery to free up resources to deal with the virus outbreak.

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Tessa Akerman 12pm: Andrews defends China deal despite death sentence

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has defended his government’s Belt and Road agreement with China following the country’s decision to execute an Australian man on drug charges.

Mr Andrews said that level of diplomacy was for the federal government and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

“We obviously oppose, deplore and condemn the death penalty wherever it is applied,” he said.

He said his government was very careful not to cut across or interfere with the sensitive process but would be advised by DFAT and others if his government could be of use.

Mr Andrews said many countries with strong trading ties had some policies the government did not necessarily agree with, including the United States and many Southeast Asian countries.

“You don’t have to agree with everything in order to have a partnership,” he said.

He said the agreements were about trade and jobs and there were other forums, platforms and ways to raise issues of human rights.

“We don’t agree with everything that China stands for, every policy China makes or every position China takes. What we’re about is growing jobs, ”he said.

Kieran Gair 11am: Victoria rolls back more restrictions from next week

Pubs in Victoria will be able to welcome back 50 customers for a drink from next week after Premier Daniel Andrews announced a further rollback of coronavirus restrictions on Sunday.

The Victorian government will scrap the limit of 20 people at indoor venus such as cafes, restaurants, and pubs from midnight next Sunday after Mr Andrews announced that the number of people allowed in a venue at any one time would be lifted to 50.

It comes despite Victoria recording nine more coronavirus cases in the last day, eight of which are linked to hotel quarantine and known outbreaks.

Mr Andrews, however, warned Victorians to expect those “kinds of numbers in a COVID normal” environment.

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has warned of a ‘crippling’ second wave. Picture: Stuart McEvoy

Licensed venues will also be allowed to serve alcohol without a meal but pubs will only be able to offer table service to avoid people congregating at the bar.

Shared camping facilities, swimming pools and sport centres are among the other places that will reopen in Victorian from next Sunday.

“I just want to again thank Victorians for following the rules, working with us, for working with each other, to make sure we do everything we can to limit the spread of this virus and avoid that crippling second wave,” Mr Andrews said.

Victorian authorities have now tested almost 600,000 people and the state has a rate of 8913 tested per 100,000 people.

Kieran Gair 10.25am: NSW eases restriction further to boost economy

NSW will scrap the limit of 50 people at indoor venues such as cafes, pubs, restaurants, and churches on July 1 in a bid to help kick-start the state’s post-virus economy.

The number of people allowed in a venue will be limited by the rule of “one person per four square metres” while patrons will still be required to observe some social distancing rules.

Crowds will also be able to return to sporting events and concerts in July after the state government agreed to reopen outdoor cultural and sporting venues with a capacity of 40,000 people to seat 25 per cent of their normal capacity.

Patrons drink beer at a pub in the Rocks area of Sydney. Social distancing regulations will be eased further from July 1.

Nightclubs, bars, and music festivals will remain closed in July due to health advice, however, the government said it anticipated easing those restrictions in August if locally acquired transmission rates remain low.

The NSW government suffered a small setback on Saturday after health officials confirmed the state’s first case of community transmission in two weeks and another case at a school, Laguna Street Public.

Agencies 10.15am: NRL match postponed amid COVID scare

The NRL has taken the sensational step of postponing Canterbury’s match against the Sydney Roosters until Monday night following a coronavirus scare. Canterbury forward Aiden Tolman was notified on Saturday night a teacher at his child’s school had tested positive to the virus.

Aiden Tolman.

The Laguna Street Public School in Sydney’s south has been closed until June 25, with a warning there’s a possibility children may have brought the virus home. Tolman has undergone an urgent coronavirus test, with the NRL expecting results by lunchtime on Sunday.

The NRL were not willing to risk having a positive test returned just hours before kick off, throwing the schedule into chaos, so they postponed the match. The Bulldogs v Roosters game has now been moved to 7pm on Monday, while Sunday’s St George Illawarra v Cronulla match at Campbelltown has been brought forward to start at 4pm instead of 6pm.

Read the full story here.

Agencies 9.30am: COVID takes bigger toll on young than first thought

Young Australians are worried the coronavirus pandemic has damaged their future prospects, with one in two saying their mental health has gotten worse since the outbreak started.

Headspace is urging people to reach out for help, as their research released Sunday revealed the impacts the virus has had on 15 to 25 year olds. Chief executive Jason Trethowan said the survey raised serious concerns for the future wellbeing of Australia’s young.

“This sense of fear and uncertainty has the potential to be quite significant,” Mr Trethowan said.

One in five said they needed mental health support but weren’t getting it, with 66 per cent saying they hadn’t considered getting help.

Young women were more likely than young men to say their mental health had suffered due to the virus.

Two in five young people said it had damaged their confidence in achieving their future goals.

Nearly one in two young people said the pandemic had impacted their relationships with friends, their studies and their mood.

The report also revealed young people were struggling with the pandemic more than their parents thought.

Olivia Caisley 9.05am: Chinese student numbers in Australia may rise

Trade Minister Simon Birmingham says the number of Chinese students coming to study on our shores could rise in spite of Beijing’s advice to its students to avoid Australia due to an alleged increase in racist attacks.

China advised its students last Tuesday to reconsider studying in Australia — a move that threatens $12bn a year in economic activity — after earlier warning its tourists to stay away as well.

It followed warnings of economic reprisals over Australia’s push for an independent inquiry into the coronavirus pandemic, including trade strikes on Australian beef and barley.

Speaking on Sky News on Sunday Senator Birmingham said few other nations could meet Australia’s high education standards and Beijing’s warnings on travel in the past had not necessarily correlated with a drop in Chinese arrivals.

Chinese students in Sydney Abbey Shi and Clement Decheng Sun. Picture: Chris Pavlich

“Chinese authorities have made these sorts of statements previously over the last couple of years we’ve seen similar types of warnings given at different junctures, and that obviously hasn’t stopped Chinese tourists, or Chinese students from visiting Australia,” Senator Birmingham said.

“Only time will tell, but we will continue to reinforce, whether it’s in the Chinese market, or any other market overseas, that Australia is a safe welcoming hospitable nation for visitors by coming here for leisure purposes for study purposes or for work purposes.”

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Agencies 8.15am: More Australian monuments vandalised

The defacing of the Captain Cook statue in Sydney’s Hyde Park comes as Victorian police are also investigating the defacing of statues in Ballarat.

The statues of former Australian prime ministers Tony Abbott and John Howard were sprayed with red paint on Saturday morning.

They have since been covered and fenced off and a conservator will assess the damage on Monday.

A Captain James Stirling statue in Perth, Western Australia was on Friday also defaced and a 30-year-old man has been charged with criminal damage or destruction of property.

The statue’s neck and hands were painted red and an Aboriginal flag was painted over the inscription at the base.

Council workers clean up a defaced statue of John Howard in Victoria. Picture: Rob Leeson.

Read the full story here.

Agencies 8am: Women arrested after Captain Cook statue defaced

Two women have been arrested after a Captain Cook statue in Sydney’s Hyde Park was defaced.

Police were alerted to the vandalism about 4am on Sunday and arrested two women - aged 27 and 28 - nearby on College Street in the CBD, NSW Police said in a statement.

Police stand guard at the statue of Captain Cook in Hyde Park on Friday night during an anti-racism protest. The statue has since been defaced.

The women were allegedly found with several spray cans in a bag. They have been taken to Day Street police station where they are expected to be charged.

Agencies 7am: Police bodycam may shed new light on Floyd death

Video recorded by a bystander showed the world George Floyd’s horrifying last minutes, capturing his cries and pleas for air as a Minneapolis officer used his knee to pin down Floyd’s neck.

But the footage recorded by body cameras that officers wore on their chests as they were arresting Floyd is expected to show even more about what the officers and Floyd were doing and saying during that fateful encounter, and it could shape how the officers’ cases play out in court.

Sacked Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is in custody.

“A video camera, when properly authenticated, is an eye witness. It can testify,” said Michael Primeau, an audio and video forensics expert at Michigan- based Primeau Forensics.

Mr Floyd, a black man who was handcuffed, died May 25 after Derek Chauvin, a white officer, used his knee to pin him to the ground, triggering a wave of global protests.

Agencies 6.15am: Court blocks bans on protests

France’s highest administrative court says coronavirus concerns no longer justify banning public protests.

In a country that sees thousands of protests annually, the Council of State’s ruling Saturday night allows demonstrations to resume as long as health protections are respected and the events are declared in advance to authorities and not deemed a risk to public order.

Riot policemen stand together during a Black Lives Matter rally in Nantes, western France.

The council says that “the ban on protesting is not justified by the current health situation” and the right to protest is a “fundamental freedom.” The ruling came as an unauthorized protest against police violence and racial injustice wound down in Paris. Police stopped at least 15,000 protesters from marching through the city Saturday, citing virus restrictions on any gathering of more than 10 people.

Agencies 6am: Greek islands to reopen, despite risks

The Greek island of Mykonos’ newest bar-restaurant, Pelican, seemed to appear from nowhere.

Tables, light fixtures and staff members with matching black face masks were still being slotted into place as Greeks visiting the island for a long holiday weekend trickled in to check out the place. The owner expects a slow slummer but says he’s in a hurry to get back to business.

A yacht sails out of the harbor on the Greek island of Mykonos, where tourism operators are keen to reopen.

Greece is, too heavily reliant on tourism, the country is officially reopening to foreigners on Monday after closing its borders to most during the coronavirus pandemic. Its hopes are pinned on popular tourist destinations such as Mykonos and the islands of Rhodes, Corfu, Crete and Santorini, where regular ferry service already resumed and direct international flights are set to restart on July 1.

Agencies 5.30am: Food market the centre of new Beijing cluster

The largest wholesale food market in Beijing was shuttered behind police guard and the surrounding neighbourhood locked down yesterday after more than 50 people tested positive for the coronavirus in the Chinese capital.

The outbreak — coming more than 50 days after the last local case in the city of 20 million people — saw authorities lock down 11 residential communities near the Xinfadi market, about three kilometres southeast of the Temple of Heaven tourist site.

Police officers could be seen manoeuvring white fencing into place to seal off a road leading to a cluster of apartment buildings.

Paramilitary police stand guard on a street near the Xinfadi wholesale food market. Picture: AP

Beijing officials said 45 workers at the market tested positive for the coronavirus, though they showed no symptoms. That was in addition to seven earlier cases of people with symptoms, including six who had visited or worked at the market.

Inspectors also took 1,901 samples from meat, surfaces, dustbins, handles and other objects at the market, and 40 tested positive, the officials said. The Beijing News, citing the head of the Xinfadi market, said the virus had been found on a chopping board for imported salmon. That led to several major supermarket chains removing salmon from their shelves, another newspaper, the Beijing Youth Daily, reported.

Paramilitary police officers prepare food supplies outside the Xinfadi market in Beijing. Picture: AFP

Communist Party members and volunteers were being mobilised to shop for food and other daily necessities for the affected residents, the Beijing News newspaper said in a social media post. It wasn’t immediately clear how many people live in the 11 communities.

Outside the market, paramilitary police in green uniforms put up vehicle barricades and stood in position at the entrances. Some people were allowed in after showing documents at checkpoints. A red banner reading “We cannot lower our guard when it comes to epidemic prevention and control” hung on a fence.

Public health experts assure Beijing's regionally clustered #COVID19 infections won't cause a second wave of the epidemic in China, but act as a warning to alter its anti-epidemic policies. https://t.co/WsrqIwG54O pic.twitter.com/P0zwlUXqO9
— Global Times (@globaltimesnews) June 13, 2020

Agencies 5.15am: Protesters defy warnings to gather in major cities

Protesters have defied public health warnings to rally across the country amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Chief medical officer Professor Brendan Murphy has repeatedly urged people not to take to the streets after thousands turned out across the country last weekend for Black Lives Matter rallies, saying such events “really are dangerous”.

Protesters gather for a Free The Refugees rally at Sydney Town Hall yesterday. Picture: AAP

But protesters nonetheless turned out to rallies in support of refugees and the BLM movement in Sydney, Perth, Darwin, Adelaide and Melbourne on Friday and Saturday.

A protester fights to get his message across yesterday in Sydney. Picture: AAP

Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack fears the protests could spark a second wave of COVID-19.

“These people who want to go into protest, they ought to think long and hard about their actions,” Mr McCormack said.

“The courts say no. The chief medical officer ... says no. Common sense would dictate to them that they should be staying at home.”

Australia had recorded 12 new COVID-19 cases over 24 hours as of Saturday afternoon, taking the national case total 7302.

Andi Yu 5am: Victorian doctor worked at three clinics while infectious

A doctor who worked at three medical clinics while potentially infectious with coronavirus is in isolation.

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The Victorian health department announced on Saturday the GP was one of eight of the latest COVID-19 cases.

The male GP is asymptomatic and caught the virus from a close contact, who also showed no symptoms. He worked at Lilydale Medical Clinic on June 11 and Cedars Medical Clinic in Coburg and Croydon Family Practice on June 9.

The department is contacting all potentially affected patients and the clinics are being cleaned.

Six other virus cases were detected in returned travellers in hotel quarantine, and one is a household contact linked to the outbreak at the Rydges on Swanston hotel.

Jodi Stephens 4.45am: Sydney school shut, students told to self-isolate

All students at a Sydney primary school have been told to self-isolate after a staff member tested positive for COVID-19.

Laguna Street Public School in southern Sydney will stop on-site learning until June 24 following the diagnosis, according to the NSW education department.

Since 8pm last night, there have been four new cases of #COVID19 diagnosed, bringing the total number of cases in NSW to 3,119.

There were 14,127 tests carried out in the reporting period, compared with more than 15,200 in the previous 24 hours. pic.twitter.com/JdXZWnDRMs
— NSW Health (@NSWHealth) June 13, 2020

All school students have been deemed close contacts of the employee and should start self-isolating, a statement from the department said on Saturday night.

It comes after a staff member at Rose Bay Public School in Sydney’s eastern suburbs was confirmed on Friday to have tested positive for the coronavirus. The Rose Bay case caused the school’s closure on Friday, but authorities are investigating whether it is an older infection.