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Local authorities in Sydney, in eastern Australia, were mobilized Thursday to try to understand as quickly as possible the origin of the first local cases of coronavirus contamination in a month in the city, in particular ordering the population to hand over The mask.
A fifty-something and his wife have just tested positive, and the authorities are trying to trace all the places they have been since they are contagious.
These are the first cases of transmission recorded in the city – outside the quarantine hotels – since the beginning of April.
The Prime Minister of the State of New South Wales, of which Sydney is the capital, Gladys Berejiklian, announced that as of 5:00 p.m., the five million inhabitants of the city should put the mask back on public transport and in closed spaces.
“We believe this is a proportionate response to the risk we face,” she told reporters.
The health authorities indicated that the first investigations pointed to a link with a traveler who had recently returned from the United States and who had carried out his quarantine in one of the hotels in the city.
They still do not know how the virus got into the population.
Australia has contained the spread of Covid-19 on its soil rather well, in particular by means of drastic border control.
All the recent outbreaks – very localized – have been linked to flaws in the quarantine systems.
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