Coronavirus: Sydney outbreak triggers travel clampdown; six South Koreans die awaiting hospital beds
- Sydney scrambles to contain outbreak, throwing travel plans into chaos
- One of those who died waiting for a hospital bed was at home in Seoul, while three others were in a nursing home in Gyeonggi province
After Australians had largely been able to travel freely within the country, a coronavirus outbreak in one part of Sydney has brought back some border restrictions and raised fears travel bans could return across the country for Christmas.
A new outbreak of Covid-19 has been detected in the northern beaches area of Sydney.
New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian told reporters on Friday that 28 cases have emerged in the past week.
The state’s health chief Dr Kerry Chant said the source of the outbreak was a strain of virus brought in from overseas, most likely from the United States.
“We are yet to work out how it got from the international source to the community, whether it was through quarantine or other sources. That's really the challenge for our genomic experts at the moment,” Berejiklian told reporters Friday morning.
Long queues formed at testing stations as news of the outbreak spread.
