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TWO AUSTRALIAN APARTMENT blocks have been placed under strict lockdown with residents barred from leaving, as authorities stepped up efforts to curb a fast-growing coronavirus outbreak.
Police were posted outside an apartment block in Sydney’s Bondi neighbourhood, where nine people have tested positive for the virus, with movement in and out of the building restricted.
Sydney’s five million residents are currently in their third week of a partial lockdown as authorities try to stamp out the spread of the virus in the community.
Residents in Australia’s largest city are allowed to leave home for exercise, essential shopping, work or health reasons, but are encouraged to remain at home.
Tougher restrictions are placed on people who have visited locations that are declared a virus hotspot, which may include mandatory 14-day quarantine.
Australia’s latest Covid-19 outbreak began in mid-June and has since grown to 767 cases.
An entire apartment block in Melbourne was also placed under isolation for 14 days, after removal workers who visited from Sydney tested positive.
Authorities are now asking Australians living in other apartment buildings to wear a mask when in common areas.
“When you’re in apartment buildings, we’re not wanting you to congregate in any shared spaces,” said New South Wales chief health official Kerry Chant.
“We are really requiring under a public health order that you wear masks when you’re transiting through common areas.”
Residents in one southwest Sydney neighbourhood, where the virus is currently spreading most quickly, are now required to get tested every three days if they leave the area for work.
Under 10% of Australians have been fully vaccinated, leaving the population highly vulnerable to the quick-spreading Delta variant.
Sydney’s lockdown had been scheduled to end on Friday, but an extension is now looking likely, despite a drop in new infections to 89 in the past 24 hours.
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Imagine paying all that money, and then it doesn’t tell the right time.
@Mick paisley: ah ! but it is right at least twice a day !
Who wants to break the news the CAB both watches are fake?
@Dublin Lad: All the better if they are,then they can get them for forgery , counterfeit goods or whatever additional charges to target this gang.
@Honeybee: forgery for owning a fake watch???…..hardly
@STOIC SAVAGE: Who said they owned them,being in possession of counterfeit/stolen goods is an offence ,what about all those raids where such goods are confiscated and destroyed. If they are the rightful owners they will be able to prove it,right.
@Honeybee: that wasn’t your point smart arse
@STOIC SAVAGE: handling fake watch…
@Dublin Lad: how can you tell from that picture?
@andyearley: because I have 2 eyes.
Whom ever buys luxury watches must know they always look incredibly tacky and tasteless. Don’t care if you are a criminal or just massively rich expensive doesn’t mean much if you have no style or taste.
Has the CAB made any progress on the investigation into O’Bribes donations to the ex minister Lowry and the findings of the Moriarty Tribunal…?
What if they got the watch as a gift?
I often wonder about the need to take luxury watches.
Obviously if bought from dodgy money that’s fair enough, but will they be sold then with the boxes and papers? Otherwise they straight away lose value and nobody will want them.
They both look fairly fake too just to note.
@Madra: if they got watches as a gift then all they have to do is prove it and get their watches back , simple as that.
Nice luxury watch.. I bet they still look at their phones to check the time tho :)
@Patti o furniture: probably cant even tell the time !!
Shmolex
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