Sydney families have been reminded not to visit loved ones in aged care facilities this Father's Day, as another school prepares to close on Monday after two students tested positive amid a growing cluster in the city's CBD.
The Kincoppal-Rose Bay private girls' school will close for cleaning and contact tracing on Monday after two year 7 day students were confirmed to have the virus.
On Saturday night, principal Maureen Ryan said the school is working closely with NSW Health to ensure the best precautions are in place to protect students and staff.
It comes as the cluster in Sydney's CBD grew by four, and NSW Health issued an alert on Saturday afternoon after two people with COVID-19 attended the Hyde Park medical centre on Liverpool Street.
Health authorities are assessing potential coronavirus exposure of people who attended the medical centre and physiotherapy, pathology, dermatology and dental practices, or the pharmacy on the ground floor of the Liverpool Street building, from Monday August 24 to today.
The Kincoppal school at Rose Bay will close on Monday after two students tested positive for the virus. Credit:Louise Kennerley
Anyone who worked at the centre between Monday 24 August and Saturday should get tested for COVID-19 immediately and isolate until a negative result is received, NSW Health said.
NSW Health's Christine Selvey said the CBD cluster was "still being brought under control", while one case in hotel quarantine brought the total new cases in the 24 hours to 8pm Friday to five.
Dr Selvey acknowledged the health advice "will be difficult for many families on Father's Day", but "our priority is to prevent the spread of the virus to the most vulnerable people in the community".
Dr Selvey also announced a Sydney emergency department health worker had been diagnosed with coronavirus. The case will be included in Sunday's official numbers.
Coronavirus drive through testing clinic at Bondi BeachCredit:Wolter Peeters
The health worker carried out two shifts while potentially infectious at Concord and Liverpool Hospital emergency departments, but had worn full personal protective equipment at the time.
Meanwhile, two men and a woman were arrested amid violent clashes at an anti-lockdown protest in Sydney's CBD on Saturday.
Police said the men, 44 and 54, allegedly assaulted police officers at Hyde Park protest, while the woman was arrested for failing to comply with move-on directions. All three were later charged.
Protesters who gathered at Hyde Park chanted "what is your ABN number", "COVID is a hoax", "people are sheep" and "wake up sheeple".
A man is seen bleeding profusely from a head wound incurred during a dramatic arrest in Hyde Park.Credit:Brook Mitchell
Later, police attended a larger anti-lockdown demonstration at Olympic Park and arrested two men, while another nine protesters were arrested at a similar protest in Byron Bay, including a 34-year-old man who allegedly assaulted a senior constable.
A day after the national cabinet failed to come to an agreement on the definition of a COVID-19 hotspot, Queensland Health Minister Steven Miles doubled down on his state's refusal to open borders to NSW and Victoria unless they had 28 days without community transmission.
"We are a long way from being able to start counting those 28 days," he said on Saturday.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian had warned Queensland that no state had an excuse to keep its border closed with her state under the preliminary definitions of a hotspot.
Federal Labor frontbenchers rallied to Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk's defence yesterday, accusing Prime Minister Scott Morrison of bullying Labor premiers.
"It is apparent to me that Morrison is more focused on bullying the premiers than he is building consensus," Labor's resources spokesman Joel Fitzgibbon told The Sun-Herald.
Shadow health spokesman Chris Bowen said the federal government was "playing politics with internal state borders to try and distract from their own failings".
"We've got a government which has presided over an aged care disaster, a tragedy in aged care, which still hasn't got a vaccine deal and they're trying to bully premiers," he said. "Ultimately Annastacia Palaszczuk is accountable to her population, not to Gladys Berejiklian's."
As authorities work to bring the CBD cluster under control, the state's liquor authority named the Bondi Bowling Club as "the worst venue to date" for failing to comply with health orders, issuing a double fine of $10,000 for physical distancing and hygiene issues last weekend.
When inspectors visited club on August 29 they found multiple group bookings of more than 10 people, no social distancing in bar queues, people mingling while drinking alcohol and inadequate signage.
Tom Rabe is Transport Reporter with The Sydney Morning Herald.
Natassia is the education reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald.
Jenny Noyes is a journalist at the Sydney Morning Herald.
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