Covid 19 coronavirus: Sydney center on alert, wedding guests fined

NSW Health has issued alerts for public transport locations and routes in the heart of Sydney.

Among the affected locations are the David Jones store on Castlereagh St, Uniqlo in MidCity and the Kinokuniya bookstore on George St.

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There are also alerts for the eastern suburbs, including Bondi Beach Woolworths and Edgecliff Coles.

Meanwhile, the police fined nine residents of the North Beaches after they were caught attending a wedding in Sydney’s financial district.

Three other guests are expected to be fined A $ 1000 each for violating Covid-19 rules by attending the reception, which is understood to have taken place at Doltone House in Pyrmont on Sunday.

It comes as strict new restrictions are announced for New Years celebrations in Sydney.

There will be no crowds at the festivities around Sydney Harbor this year, despite previous restrictions allowing frontline workers access to view the midnight fireworks through a permit system.

The tradition of camping at strategic points in the city has also been banned, unless it is a ticketed event administered by the city council.

“As you know, we had previously assigned places along the beach so frontline workers from all over the state could come and enjoy the fireworks,” Prime Minister Gladys Berejiklian said Monday.

“Unfortunately, we are going to have to cancel that. We think it is too much of a health risk for people from the regions and from Sydney and wider regional areas to meet in the CBD and the council to date has to try all of them to avoid it. CBD on New Years Eve “.

New South Wales recorded five new locally acquired Covid cases within 24 hours to 8 p.m. Four are linked to the Avalon group.

On Sunday, the state registered seven new cases. The northern beach cluster is now at 126.

Wedding guests fined

New South Wales police have fined nine North Beach residents who attended a wedding in Sydney yesterday in violation of Covid-19 restrictions.

Officers were called to the wedding reception in Pyrmont, in Sydney’s financial district, around 5 p.m. and found that more than a dozen guests were residents of the northern beaches region, which is under strict rules. to stay at home.

The wedding venue is understood to be Doltone House on Sydney Harbor Beach.

Nine people received notifications of violation of a $ 1,000 fine, including a man and a woman, both aged 43, from Allambie Heights; a Narraweena woman, 33; a man from Frenchs Forest, 27; three women, ages 19, 22 and 28, from Beacon Hill; and two men, ages 23 and 63, also from Beacon Hill.

Police expect to issue notices of violation of sanctions to three other people: a 34-year-old man and a 36-year-old woman from Frenchs Forest and a 26-year-old man from Beacon Hill.

Police investigations continue. Doltone House has been contacted for comment.