Gladys Berejiklian says households will be limited to five visitors on New Year’s Eve as state on high alert over cases in Sydney suburbs and Wollongong. All the latest news and updates, live
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Gladys Berejiklian said residents on the northern beaches would be “completely justified” to be frustrated they are still under lockdown while the rest of greater Sydney, which has seen unlinked community transmission, has more freedoms.
I can appreciate the frustration people feel when there are stay-at-home orders for one part of the city and other parts of the city are made to move more freely.
I just say thank you to people in the northern beaches especially in that northern zone who are really doing a lot of the heavy lifting at this stage to keep everybody safe.
Gladys Berejiklian said she expected to see a “tail” follow the initial cases in the northern beaches.
When you had a large concentration of cases, you do expect during the process you’re going to have those household contacts in isolation get the virus and obviously that pushes up the numbers.
I’m expecting the numbers to bounce around for several weeks. But what we don’t want to see is new chains of transmission that we don’t know about.”
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