New South Wales records zero new local cases of Covid-19

New South Wales records zero new local cases as Western Sydney and Northern Beaches clusters appear to be contained 

New South Wales has recorded zero new local cases of coronavirus

The government has issued an alert for anyone who has been at the Hotel Grand Chancellor in Brisbane, fearing a highly contagious strain of coronavirus may have spread across the border.

The quarantine hotel is linked to six cases of the UK variant of COVID-19 and has been closed by the Queensland government for deep cleaning.

NSW Health on Wednesday urged anyone who had been at the hotel since December 30, as a returned traveller or worker, to immediately get tested and isolate for 14 days regardless of the result.

‘NSW Health is working with Queensland Health to identify these people so our contact tracers can provide public health advice and updated information as it becomes available,’ it said.

It comes as Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant said it was unlikely coronavirus restrictions across Greater Sydney would be eased in the coming days.

She said authorities needed at least another three weeks to ensure the Berala and northern beaches clusters are squashed.

‘It would take at least three, maybe four weeks and so I need the community to be on track with us,’ Dr Chant told reporters on Wednesday.

‘As an epidemiologist, we like to see around two incubation periods before we assess that we are free of the disease.’