Tens of thousands of people are in isolation after potential exposure to coronavirus at a BWS bottle shop in Sydney’s west over a number of days around Christmas and New Year’s Eve.
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0:00 – Eight new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 have been recorded in NSW while contact tracers tackle the “concerning” amount of transmission at the bottle shop.
1:59 – Genomic sequencing has also revealed the Berala cluster, which is sitting at 13 cases, is linked to a quarantine transport driver who tested positive last month.
5:50 – Victoria records three new locally acquired coronavirus cases overnight, as the state works to contain a cluster linked to a restaurant in Melbourne’s south-east.
10:20 – South Australia’s border with Victoria remains open, but the state’s Chief Public Health Officer is encouraging people to reconsider any plan to head interstate.
11:16 – Melbourne University researchers will get more than $1.5 million in funding to clinically trial COVID-19 vaccines in the middle of this year.
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