New South Wales announces new mask restrictions and quarantine rules for returning travellers as it records four new local cases of Covid-19
New South Wales has asked residents returning from Brisbane to self-isolate for 14 days after the UK strain of Covid-19 escaped from hotel quarantine.
Acting Premier John Barilaro said anyone who arrived in NSW from Brisbane after 12.01am on 2 January must stay at home for 14 days since they arrived.
If they leave home for any of four permitted reasons they must wear a mask.
On Thursday New South Wales recorded four new local cases of coronavirus and seven in returned travellers in hotel quarantine.
Of the new local cases, one case remains under investigation. This is the man from the northern zone of the Northern Beaches first reported yesterday morning.
One is linked to the Croydon cluster, and is a close contact of a previously reported case, bringing the cluster to 11.
Two are linked to the Berala cluster, and are close contacts of previously reported cases, taking that cluster to 20.