COVID-19 update: Sydney’s tighter restrictions come into force

This is your update on the Coronavirus in Australia for 23 August 2021

Workers conduct a deep clean at Carlton Public School in Sydney, Monday, August 23, 2021. Source: AAP Image/Joel Carrett

In Sydney hotspots, measures now include a 9pm-5am curfew and limit of one hour exercise daily
Victoria records 22 mystery cases
ACT opens Pfizer registration for the 16-29 age cohort
South Australia launches home-based quarantine trial

New South Wales

NSW has recorded 818 new locally acquired cases, with at least 42 cases in the community while infectious. Three people in their 80s, who all had underlying health conditions, have died.

As of today,

additional rules apply across Greater Sydney

while workers from the Canterbury-Bankstown, Cumberland and Fairfield no longer need regular COVID-19 testing to work outside their local government areas.

Book today your

vaccination appointment

Victoria

Victoria has recorded 71 new locally acquired cases, with 22 not linked to known outbreaks. Fifty-five cases were in the community while infectious.

Mystery cases were recorded in Essendon West, Camberwell, Thornbury, Fitzroy North, Maidstone and Sorrento.

Find here the

list of exposure sites

and the

list of vaccination centres

Australian Capital Territory

The ACT has recorded 16 new locally acquired cases, three of which are under investigation. Three cases were in the community while infections.

Those aged 16 to 29 can now register for booking of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine through

My Digital Health Record

website.

Find here the

list of exposure sites

and check your eligibility for

COVID-19 vaccination

Last 24 hours around Australia

Queensland records one locally acquired case in home quarantine.
South Australia launches a home quarantine trial, aiming to quarantine people at home rather than hotels, tracked with the help of geo-location and facial recognition software.

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

and

and

QLD

and

and

TAS

and

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.