Overnight the spread across NSW continues with more cases, one in a supermarket worker, store now closed for deep cleaning.
Gladys strongly communicates she will not be taking Sydney back into lockdown measures like Melbourne and “we have to learn to coexist”. She appears to have full support of her cabinet.
And in Vic, a link apparently Now established between the BLM Protest and the housing tower outbreak.
NSW: Mancini’s pizza, Woolworths Bowral hit with COVID-19
A Sydney pizza restaurant will close for three days after a customer tested positive for coronavirus amid reports a staff member at a Woolworths in Bowral was also confirmed to have the disease.
The team member reportedly last worked at Woolworths on Sunday, July 12 and had not developed any symptoms related to the virus.
Any customers who shopped at the store on the day have been urged to make contact with NSW Health should they feel unwell.
A Sydney pizza restaurant customer and a Woolworths staff member at Bowral have tested positive for coronavirus.
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No plans to lock down state, Gladys Berejiklian says
"As much as we'd love to have elimination, as much as we’d love to be able to be in that state, it's not going to happen in New South Wales.”
What we determined the best course in managing this pandemic is what we call a suppression strategy. Unfortunately what we all have to accept is that as restrictions have [released] and as people start to go back to work and to daily lives, we will see case numbers increase.
“Every time we have an outbreak, we can’t afford to lockdown, reopen, lockdown, reopen. That’s no way to live or to be able to instil confidence to businesses to keep employing people.”
Ms Berejiklian said this was why her Government had taken the time to expand their health capacity, gather the protective equipment needed for frontline workers and put processes in place “to make sure we can do what is required to contain the spread”.
Infections and fears for community transmission might be on the rise in New South Wales, but Premier Gladys Berejiklian has all but ruled out sending her state back into lockdown, saying it’s “no way to live”.
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Black Lives Matter protest linked to tower cluster
Victorian health authorities have confirmed a link between two coronavirus cases in Black Lives Matter protest attendees and a cluster of at least 242 cases in Melbourne's public housing towers,
The Australian reports
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