Cars queue at a Covid testing clinic in Bondi, Sydney on June 22. Photo / News Corp Australia
Cars queue at a Covid testing clinic in Bondi, Sydney on June 22. Photo / News Corp Australia
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has dismissed suggestions Sydney should go into lockdown as Covid-19 cases surge, but has left the door open should the outbreak take an ugly turn.
NSW recorded a worrying 10 new community infections today. There are now 21 infections linked to the Bondi outbreak.
The only case among the 10 that is not linked to the Bondi cluster is a student from St Charles Catholic Primary School in the suburb of Waverley.
Berejiklian said if unlinked cases began to rise, she would consider a lockdown.
"At this stage we follow [chief health officer] Dr [Kerry] Chant and the health advice," she said.
"Because all but one case is linked to an existing case and that case was only discovered a few hours ago … that gives us a degree of confidence that what we have asked people to do matches the risk that is there at the moment.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian. Photo / News Corp Australia
"If that changes, if we suddenly have a number of unlinked cases and if we suddenly have them outside the geographic region they are concentrated in, we will obviously adjust the health advice and we will respond to that."
However, Berejiklian did announce a week-long extension of mask restrictions to all of greater Sydney today.
