Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly says 76,000 people across the country had a COVID-19 test on Monday— some 44,000 in New South Wales alone — in the wake of the northern beaches cluster.
Here’s a summary of what happened on Tuesday.
- Sydney's northern beaches coronavirus cluster grew to 90 after eight new infections were recorded
- Victoria recorded one interstate case of COVID-19 from a returned traveller who is believed to have acquired the infection in NSW's northern beaches area
- WA announced it would lift its coronavirus quarantine restrictions on SA travellers on Christmas Day
- SA, QLD, NT and WA recorded no new COVID cases
- Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly confirmed four cases of the new COVID-19 variant found in UK are in Australia, two in NSW and two in Victoria, all in hotel quarantine
- Antarctica, previously the only continent free of coronavirus, recorded 36 cases
- US president-elect Joe Biden received his COVID-19 vaccine on live television
