These were this morning’s major headlines:
NSW recorded 30 new cases of COVID-19, all linked to the Bondi cluster. Ten cases were traced to the Great Ocean Foods seafood wholesaler in Marrickville, and Premier Gladys Berejiklian warned case numbers are likely to increase beyond what we have seen today as people’s household contacts test positive in the coming days.
Victorian health authorities are following up with 128 passengers who were on a flight from Brisbane to Melbourne with a potentially infectious flight attendant. The state recorded no new cases on Sunday.
Queensland recorded two new cases of COVID-19 in the community. The Brisbane couple has the Alpha strain, and authorities are determining whether they are linked to a cluster that emerged from Brisbane’s Four Points quarantine hotel earlier this month.
In WA, the Perth and Peel regions will go back to phase one restrictions over fears a new COVID-19 community case is the quick to spread Delta variant. The snap reaction from the WA government has been prompted by a woman in her 50s returning a positive COVID-19 test last night: she had recently been in Sydney and had brunch at the Lyfe Cafe in Bondi on June 19.
And the Northern Territory has recorded four new cases of COVID-19 linked to a gold mine worker who acquired the virus in a Queensland quarantine hotel, plunging Darwin and the surrounding areas of Litchfield and Palmerston into a two-day lockdown. The outbreak has sent several state and territory health authorities scrambling to trace 900 contacts who have departed the mine site and dispersed across Australia.
