Sixteen additional coronavirus cases recorded in NSW as new restrictions announced
Sixteen new COVID-19 cases have been detected in New South Wales overnight as health authorities announced a slew of restrictions aimed at slowing the spread of a “very serious outbreak” of the highly contagious Delta variant.
The official case tally for Wednesday was 10 infections and included seven previously announced cases. A further 13 cases were recorded after the 8pm cut off and will be included in Thursday’s numbers.
A total of 31 cases have now been linked to the Bondi cluster.
“Our government will take action today to limit the spread of what is a very contagious variant of COVID-19,” NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said on Wednesday.