NSW health authorities have asked travellers in the state from Greater Brisbane to "do the right thing" and self-isolate until Monday evening.
Key points:
- John Barilaro said he would be supporting Queensland public health orders
- NSW health authorities were "taking a precautionary approach" to mutated strains of COVID-19
- Despite an unlinked Avalon case, Sydney's northern beaches will reopen again on Sunday
Four new COVID-19 infections were confirmed by NSW Acting Premier John Barilaro this morning.
Two of the new cases are linked to the Berala cluster, one is linked to the Croydon cluster and the other infection, which was reported yesterday, is linked to the Avalon cluster.
All infections except for the one reported out of Avalon yesterday have been linked to known cases.
Mr Barilaro said anyone in NSW who has been in Greater Brisbane since January 2 must isolate until 7:00pm EDT on Monday, January 11.
The announcement came after Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced a three-day lockdown for Greater Brisbane earlier today.
She also asked anyone who had been in Greater Brisbane — particularly Brisbane, Logan, Ipswich, Moreton and Redlands — since January 2 to isolate no matter where they had travelled to.
Mr Barilaro said NSW won't have a "knee jerk reaction" and treat state borders like a "light switch" but would support Queensland's restrictions.
"If you are in the midst of travelling from Brisbane, as we speak, to NSW and you come from those areas, we expect you to abide by the isolation rules that would have applied to you as if you were to Brisbane," Mr Barilaro said.
"It is important to understand that we will not be locking down the border but we will be applying the same level of restrictions to those who are coming or those who are in NSW have come from those areas.
"I'm urging everybody to do the right thing."
NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard was hesitant to offer a view on the Brisbane lockdown, but said "we should back them and that is what we are doing".
NSW chief health officer Kerry Chant said she was "taking a precautionary approach" to dealing with the mutated strains of COVID-19, which triggered the Brisbane lockdown.
A new mutant variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes COVID-19, is driving increased transmission of the disease in parts of the UK.
Dr Chant's Queensland counterpart, Jeannette Young, said this morning that the UK variant was 70 per cent more infectious than other strains of the virus.
Dr Chant, however, said the "best minds around the world" are still "sitting on a fence" and still studying its impact and that it wasn't practical for NSW to implement additional measures.
"One of the challenges of just targeting one particular country or UK strain is that we are a world, international travellers go everywhere, and I think we have learned… we cannot block a particular group at a particular point in time," Dr Chant said.
According to NSW Health, travellers from the UK had 49, or about 11 per cent of all, positive hotel quarantine cases in the past three weeks.
Meanwhile, NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard said despite some "anxiety" around an untraced COVID-19 case in the northern beaches, the northern peninsula lockdown will end at 12:01am on Sunday.
The 70,000 residents living north of the Narrabeen Bridge have been in lockdown since December 19 and will adopt the same restrictions as Greater Sydney.
"The view has been taken on the basis of the response we saw, particularly before Christmas, from the northern beaches residents, is their willingness and capacity to come out and get tested in enormous numbers," Mr Hazzard said.
Mr Hazzard said he had "confidence" and "some reservations" that the region could open up again.
A total of 26,112 tests were completed in the reporting period.
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