Yesterday, new cases were confirmed at a childcare centre and shopping mall in Sydney’s north shore and an urgent warning was issued for bus commuters to isolate immediately amid a growing cluster in the city’s eastern suburbs.
Investigators are scrambling to track down passengers on the X39 Sydney Buses service that left Pitt Street opposite Australia Square in the CBD at 6.08pm and arrived at Clovelly and Carrington Roads at Randwick at 6.40pm on Thursday August 20 after two commuters later tested positive.
There are now warnings in place across the city after recorded cases visited shopping centres, pubs and gyms. A school and an early learning centre have also closed.
The latest affected locations are Chatswood Chase shopping centre, St Paul’s Catholic College in Greystanes, Reddam Early Learning Centre at Lindfield, Highfield Caringbah pub, Fitness First Randwick and Broadway shopping centre in Ultimo.
NSW recorded seven new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, including a student at a western Sydney school and five linked to the CBD cluster, which has grown to 28.
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Queensland will introduce restrictions on public gatherings in some parts of the state this morning after a cluster grew yesterday.
The state recorded four new cases all of them linked to the current corrective services outbreak in southeast Queensland.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said the new cases were known contacts of positive cases linked to the cluster that has emerged from the Queensland Corrective Services Academy.
From 8am today, gatherings in private homes and public places in the Western Downs, South Burnett, Cherbourg, Toowoomba, Goondiwindi, and Southern Downs council areas will be limited to 10 people, while restrictions on access to aged-care facilities will also apply.
The Brisbane, Ipswich, Redland, Moreton Bay, Logan, Gold Coast, Lockyer Valley, Scenic Rim and Somerset local government areas already have these restrictions in place, while the rest of the state has gathering limits of 30 people.
Nationals Minister David Littleproud says he has heard "harrowing stories" from towns along the Queensland-NSW border.
Scott Morrison has demanded answers from Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk about why a pregnant woman in Ballina in northern NSW had to travel to Sydney for medical care instead of obtaining an exemption to cross the border for treatment in Brisbane.
It resulted in the woman, Kimberly Brown, who was pregnant with twins, losing an unborn child.
This morning, Mr Littleproud said the border rules need to be founded on "science, on compassion and common sense".
"Not only for health, but education," he told the Today show.
"I'm hearing harrowing stories now about mental health for our boarding school kids who as we come up to the school holidays aren't being able to go home because they have to self isolate in Queensland government facility for two weeks when they come back."
He said the line dividing some border communities was put on a map over 100 years ago and doesn't make sense anymore.
"Modern Australia has grown past it," he said. "If the states can't show leadership then we've got to have mature conversation about how we get through this.
"We don't know how long we'll be under COVID conditions. There has to be some common sense and understanding about making things work properly in a modern Australia."
Victoria Police handed out fines and made arrests as anti-lockdown protesters gathered in Melbourne.
In a statement this morning, the force said protesters gathered in Dandenong yesterday evening.
Officers issued five fines during a prohibited gathering near the George Andrews Reserve in Dandenong.
Police are continuing to investigate the protest and will consider issuing penalty notices for anyone else found to be in breach of coronavirus rules.
Officers also arrested three men during a prohibited gathering in the Roxburgh Park area yesterday.
A 22-year-old man from Broadmeadows, an 18-year-old male from Broadmeadows and a 17-year-old male from Craigieburn were all arrested and will be issued infringements for breaking virus rules and traffic-related offences.
Police are continuing to investigate the gathering and will consider issuing penalty notices for anyone else found to have broken virus rules.
After a weekend of sunny weather in Sydney, the city has now been put on alert with a series of worrying virus warnings.
Yesterday, new cases were confirmed at a childcare centre and shopping mall in Sydney's north shore and an urgent warning was issued for bus commuters to isolate immediately amid a growing cluster in the city's eastern suburbs.
Investigators are scrambling to track down passengers on the X39 Sydney Buses service that left Pitt Street opposite Australia Square in the CBD at 6.08pm and arrived at Clovelly and Carrington Roads at Randwick at 6.40pm on Thursday August 20 after two commuters later tested positive.
The new alert came as hundreds flocked to beaches in Sydney's eastern suburbs on Sunday to soak up the 26C sunshine.
NSW recorded seven new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, including a student at a western Sydney school and five linked to the CBD cluster, which has grown to 28.
On Sunday night, Chatswood Chase shopping centre put out an alert after a customer who visited Sushi Rio on August 27 returned a positive COVID-19 test. The customer visited the store between 5.45pm and 7.30pm.
Meanwhile, St Paul's Catholic College in Greystanes, in the city's west, is closed for deep cleaning today. A student attended while infectious. Close contacts are being notified.
Reddam Early Learning Centre at Lindfield has also been closed after a staff member tested positive.
The case is a household contact of a previously reported case linked to the CBD cluster.
They worked three days between August 25-27 while unknowingly being infectious.
Other warnings went out for anyone who visited Highfield Caringbah pub for more than two hours on August 22 from 6pm to 8.30pm.
They are considered a close contact of a previously reported case and must isolate immediately for 14 days since that date and get tested.
Gym-goers who used the weights room at Fitness First Randwick on August 23 between 3.30pm and 4.15pm are considered close contacts of a previously reported case and should also immediately isolate for 14 days and be tested.
Broadway shopping centre in Ultimo has told customers that a person who tested positive to COVID-19 visited the homewares store House on August 24 at 2pm.
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