Santa pause: COVID-19's threat to Christmas
With Sydneysiders on a knife edge about whether the virus has spread across the city, the other states and territories have started to reimpose border checkpoints and travel permits.
Travellers from the outbreak’s centre, the northern beaches stretching from Manly to Palm Beach, have been either banned from leaving NSW or must quarantine for 14 days if they do.
Sydneysiders line up to be tested at a pop-up clinic at Frenchs Forest in Sydney. Renee Nowytarger
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian reported 10 new cases, bringing the total to 28, and warned the next 48 hours would be critical as thousands of people lined up to get tested.
Late on Friday, NSW Health issued an alert for people who had visited a swag of businesses around the north shore, eastern suburbs, inner city and Cronulla to get tested and isolate. The department urged everyone in NSW to get tested if suffering from COVID-19 symptoms.
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Related: House Intel Republicans not told about Eric Swalwell’s relationship with Chinese spy.
The press / social media blackout on this is just another reason why a Biden presidency will be widely regarded as illegitimate. Before the election, my column on this subject was spiked because of journalistic ethics or something.
Plus: Swalwell’s Swill. “The spy not only infiltrated Rep. Eric Swalwell’s network, she may have shared his bed, or so we can infer from Swalwell’s assertion that the response to the question whether she did may be ‘classified.’ Axios seems to have missed that aspect of the story, which the New York Post picked up here.”