{"id":685,"date":"2020-12-16T04:52:59","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T04:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=685"},"modified":"2020-12-16T04:52:59","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T04:52:59","slug":"concerns-about-australias-covid-free-status-after-community-case-in-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=685","title":{"rendered":"Concerns about Australia&#8217;s Covid-free status after community case in Sydney"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"storyPage\">\n<p>A man who drives international air crew to and from Sydney Airport has been diagnosed with Covid-19, ending 12 consecutive days without a locally-acquired case of the virus in NSW.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"storyPage\">\n<p>In the 24 hours to 8pm on Tuesday, NSW recorded no new cases of locally-acquired Covid-19, as well as seven cases in hotel quarantine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"storyPage\">\n<p>However, NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard said today that a locally- acquired case of COVID-19 was discovered after 8pm on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"storyPage\">\n<p>The case was diagnosed in a 45-year-old man who drove vans ferrying international air crew to and from Sydney Airport.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"storyPage\">\n<p>He was first symptomatic on Saturday but did not get tested until Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"storyPage\">\n<p>He was confirmed virus-positive early on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"storyPage\">\n<p>&#8220;(This) highlights what I was talking about last week when I said that the NSW government&#8217;s focus, as the virus seemed to be contained in terms of community transmission, our most exposed areas (were) principally around our borders,&#8221; Mr Hazzard told reporters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"storyPage\">\n<p>&#8220;Obviously, we may be an island but we are not totally isolated from the pandemic that is raging across the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<strong>AP<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man who drives international air crew to and from Sydney Airport has been diagnosed with Covid-19, ending 12 consecutive days without a locally-acquired case of the virus in NSW. In the 24 hours to 8pm on Tuesday, NSW recorded no new cases of locally-acquired Covid-19, as well as seven cases in hotel quarantine. However, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19","category-world"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":687,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions\/687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}