Premier Gladys Berejiklian has said her state is not currently considering closing its border to Victoria, expressing confidence it will contain the latest coronavirus outbreak while her own state recorded a 26th consecutive day without a locally acquired case.
The coronavirus cluster associated with Melbourne’s Holiday Inn quarantine hotel grew to 13 on Thursday evening, including two household contacts of existing cases: the first cases associated with the cluster who had not been inside the hotel.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian says Victoria is not at the stage that her state should consider a border closure.Credit: Peter Braig
In breakfast television appearances on Friday, Ms Berejiklian said a border closure was currently off the table, despite moves being made in South Australia and Queensland.
“Of course it’s a concerning situation, it’s an evolving situation, but not a situation where the government can’t really get on top of it,” Ms Berejiklian told Today on Friday. “I have confidence that they will.”
One of the new Victorian cases attended a cafe at Melbourne Airport near the gates for Jetstar services to interstate locations on Tuesday.
In line with the Victorian advice, NSW Health has advised anyone who visited Brunetti at terminal 4 between 4.45am and 1.15pm on Tuesday must self-isolate and present for testing.
Ms Berejiklian said she was not considering closing the NSW border to people from affected areas, saying she preferred the current system of having travellers from Victoria complete a declaration form to determine they had not been to any sites of concern.
“The one and only occasion where we have closed the border was to Victoria, and that is when they had in excess of 150 cases a day,” she said. “We are nowhere near that. At this stage we think it is manageable.”
Speaking on Sunrise, the Premier said: “We think shutting borders and locking down the community should be the last option, not the first option.”
Restrictions in NSW further eased on Friday, in light of weeks without local cases in the state.
Under the new rules, most venues are allowed to have one patron per two square metres and masks are only mandatory on public transport, removing requirements that were in place for some indoor settings.
Testing numbers were consistent on Friday. There were 14,518 tests during the reporting period, compared with the previous day’s total of 16,397.
After last year’s Anzac Day marches were cancelled as the nation entered its first lockdown, RSL NSW state secretary Jeff O’Brien told 2GB on Friday morning the Sydney march would be going ahead in April.
Just 500 veterans will be allowed to march on the day, with interested persons asked to apply on the RSL NSW website.
“We’re restricted with the number of people that can participate in the march, so we’re going to focus on ensuring that we have veteran representation from all of our conflicts,” he told host Ben Fordham.
The march in Melbourne has been cancelled for the second consecutive year.
NSW reported two new cases in hotel quarantine on Friday bringing the total number of cases in the state since the start of the pandemic to 4945.
Mary Ward is a health reporter at The Sydney Morning Herald.
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