Millions of Sydneysiders are BANNED from Victoria in drastic border move ruining holidays for thousands – with fears growing the city’s Covid outbreak is spreading rapidly
Victoria has slammed its border shut to millions living in Sydney starting at 1am on Wednesday.
The state has branded the City of Sydney and six other suburbs as ‘red zones’, meaning travel across the border is banned.
Those who have been to one of the ‘red zones’ and live in Victoria must self-isolate immediately for 14 days.
The state has branded the City of Sydney and six other suburbs as ‘red zones’, meaning travel across the border is banned (Melbourne as seen from St Kilda Beach on Tuesday)
The decision announced late on Tuesday came after NSW recorded 10 new locally-acquired Covid cases, bringing Sydney’s growing cluster to 21 active infections.
Of the 10 new infections announced in NSW today, one of them remains a mystery.
A student at Saint Charles’ Primary School in Waverley, Sydney’s east, returned a positive result but contact tracers are still scrambling to find out where she may have contracted the virus.
The current outbreak hitting Sydney is particularly hard to trace because it is the highly infectious Delta variant which originated in India.
‘Literally people not even physically touching each other but fleetingly coming into the same airspace has seen the virus transfer from one person to another,’ Premier Gladys Berejiklian said.
‘That’s how contagious it is.’
More to come.