COVID-19 update: New lockdowns for Greater Sydney, western NSW and ACT

This is your update on the Coronavirus in Australia for 12 August 2021.

Overlooking Lake Burley Griffin with Dept. of Defence in the foreground, Captain Cook water jet centre and Black Mountain top right. (AAP Photo/Alan Porritt) Source: AAP Photo/Alan Porritt

More areas in NSW under tighter lockdown restrictions
Additional support announced for Melbourne businesses
ACT enters lockdown from 5pm
South Australians can travel to Queensland by plane

New South Wales

NSW has recorded 345 new locally acquired cases, with at least 60 in the community while infectious. Two men in their 90s died due to COVID-19.

Bogan, Bourke, Brewarrina, Coonamble, Gilgandra, Narromine, Walgett and Warren local government areas have been added overnight to the

NSW's list of locked-down areas

Bayside, Burwood and Strathfield are subject to extra COVID-19 restrictions from 5pm, bringing the total of Sydney’s local government areas in lockdown to 12.

Find here the

list of vaccination clinics

Victoria

Victoria has recorded 21 new locally acquired cases, out of which four are not linked to known outbreaks. Six cases were in the community while infectious.

Minister for Jobs, Innovation & Trade Martin Pakula announced additional support for more than 100,000 metropolitan Melbourne businesses affected by the second week of lockdown.

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list of vaccination centres

Last 24 hours around Australia

The Australian Capital Territory records the first local COVID-19 case in over a year and goes into a
one-week lockdown from 5pm today
.

Queensland records 10 new locally acquired cases linked to known outbreaks and quarantined while infectious.

QLD Premier Palaszczuk says South Australians can come to Queensland by air and warns residents not to cross the border into NSW.

Quarantine, travel, testing clinics and pandemic disaster payment

Quarantine and testing requirements are managed and enforced by state and territory governments:

NSW

and

VIC

and

ACT

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and

QLD

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and

TAS

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and

If you want to travel overseas, you may be able to apply online for an exemption.

Click here

for more information about the conditions to leave Australia. There are temporary measures for international flights that are regularly reviewed by the government and updated on the

Smart Traveller

website.