Thursday: Pair in city’s eastern suburbs test positive, triggering new hotspot warnings. Plus: opposition champions fuel as a ‘critical feedstock’
Good morning. Sydney has recorded two new Covid cases, Joe Biden has met Vladimir Putin in Europe and a giant diamond has been found in Botswana. These stories and more make up our Thursday headlines.
A man who lives in Sydney’s eastern suburbs and works as a driver for international flight crews has tested positive to Covid, as has a household contact, with NSW Health listing a string of hotspot venues they visited while potentially infectious. This comes after Victoria announced it would significantly ease coronavirus restrictions from Friday despite a cluster of new cases, with the mandatory wearing of masks outdoors and onerous travel restrictions for Melburnians lifted. Internationally, the UK has recorded its highest one-day tally since February with 9,055 new infections, raising concerns that the Delta variant is spreading aggressively. The EU has once again excluded the UK from its travel “white list” but has added the US and Hong Kong.
Continue reading...source https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jun/17/morning-mail-two-local-covid-cases-in-sydney-labor-backs-gas-sky-news-goes-regional
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