There were no new cases of COVID-19 noted in Victoria, however 200 uniformed police were at the Victoria-NSW border to keep Sydneysiders out of the state. On Sunday night, contract tracers tracked passengers from a Melbourne-bound Friday night flight with an infected flight attended.
New South Wales recorded 30 new local cases on Sunday linked to the Bondi cluster and more are expected as only 11 of these were in isolation
Victoria also shut its borders to Darwin as Darwin, Litchfield and Palmerstone in the Northern Territory entered a two-day lockdown after a miner from the Granites gold mine tested positive resulting in four new community transmission cases.
In Queensland there were three new cases of COVID, including one of the Delta variant, and from 1am Tuesday masks will be mandatory for large parts of the state’s southeast.
Queensland health authorities have released a list of more than 30 new exposure sites, including the Indooroopilly Shopping Centre, and a number of gyms and stores across Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast with two new local cases reported in the wake of a recent hotel quarantine breach.
“We are on the verge but we are monitoring very closely over the next 24 hours – will we see any further community outbreaks in Queensland,” she said.
Authorities are concerned that Australia is on the precipice of a new outbreak with snap lockdowns and border closures.
Government sources told The Australian that the national security committee of the federal cabinet will also meet on Monday to consider the outbreaks.
READ MORE: New grants programme to boost COVID and vaccine rollout info to multicultural communities
Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison wants to meet with state leaders and chief ministers urgently, while the national security committee is also meeting on Monday to consider other measures as virus chaos unfolds.
