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Enjoy it while it lasts: Sydney beaches are packed on a sunny Saturday but illegal super-spreader party that's already seen 16 cases could see the east join the western suburbs in tougher lockdown


Health officials have warned there were as many as 60 revellers at a party in Maroubra, with some of the partygoers then quickly spreading the virus onto their close contacts.

NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard hit out at the party's 'selfish' attendees after the 16 infections were revealed among a pandemic-record 825 cases found state-wide on Saturday.

NSW on Saturday registered its worst day of Covid cases Australia has seen during the global pandemic with a staggering 825 new infections, including 16 from an illegal party in Maroubra which has acted a super-spreader event. Pictured are beachgoers in Bondi on Saturday

NSW on Saturday registered its worst day of Covid cases Australia has seen during the global pandemic with a staggering 825 new infections, including 16 from an illegal party in Maroubra which has acted a super-spreader event. Pictured are beachgoers in Bondi on Saturday 

Premier Gladys Berejiklian lamented the 'catastrophic consequences' of the minority doing the wrong thing in the community, and NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard said people breaking the laws and attending illegal parties are playing roulette with the state's future

Premier Gladys Berejiklian lamented the 'catastrophic consequences' of the minority doing the wrong thing in the community, and NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard said people breaking the laws and attending illegal parties are playing roulette with the state's future

'Each of these people who are going to these functions must understand that they run the risk of either having the virus and transmitting it or getting the virus and taking it home to their families and their communities,' Mr Hazzard said. 

'There is no time now to be selfish — it's time to think of the broader community and your families. If you are actually spreading the virus, you could be responsible for peoples' deaths.' 

Sydney's latest outbreak of the Delta strain of Covid-19 began in the city's eastern suburbs when a limousine driver tested positive to the virus.

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But the cluster of cases has since spread to the west and south-western suburbs, with Sydney's east exempt from 9pm to 5am curfews now being enforced in 12 local government areas of concern. 

Premier Gladys Berejiklian has so far refused to implement the same level of restrictions in areas of the city with lower transmission of the virus.

Nineteen Labor councillors from nine of the LGAs under a curfew order - Liverpool, Fairfield, Cumberland, Canterbury-Bankstown, Blacktown, Parramatta, Campbelltown, Georges River - on Saturday wrote an open letter to the state leader calling on her to apply the same rules across Greater Sydney.

The letter said doing so would 'reunite the city' and make it easier for those living in linguistically diverse communities to understand the rules.

'It has fermented a dangerous undercurrent of resentment in our community, creating a deep divide between the "LGAs of concern" and the rest of Sydney,' the open letter reads.

NSW's 825 cases on Saturday is the worst daily rise in new Covid-19 cases in Australia during the entire pandemic.

Ms Berejiklian confirmed the record high numbers in her daily Covid press conference as Sydney enters its ninth week of lockdown, lamenting the 'catastrophic consequences' of the minority doing the wrong thing in the community.

Sydney's latest outbreak of the Delta strain of Covid-19 began in the city's eastern suburbs when a limousine driver tested positive to the virus

Sydney's latest outbreak of the Delta strain of Covid-19 began in the city's eastern suburbs when a limousine driver tested positive to the virus

Beachgoers soak up the sun at Bondi Beach on Saturday as Sydney enters its ninth week of stay-at-home orders

Beachgoers soak up the sun at Bondi Beach on Saturday as Sydney enters its ninth week of stay-at-home orders

NSW's 825 cases on Saturday is the worst daily rise in new Covid-19 cases in Australia during the entire pandemic

NSW's 825 cases on Saturday is the worst daily rise in new Covid-19 cases in Australia during the entire pandemic

Sydney's latest outbreak of the Delta strain has since spread to the city's west and south-western suburbs. Pictured are two people exercising in the city's western suburbs

Sydney's latest outbreak of the Delta strain has since spread to the city's west and south-western suburbs. Pictured are two people exercising in the city's western suburbs

Sydney's western suburbs have seen the harshest restrictions including the local government areas of Bayside, Blacktown, Burwood, Campbelltown, Canterbury-Bankstown, Cumberland, Fairfield, Georges River, Liverpool, Parramatta Strathfield or some suburbs of Penrith

Sydney's western suburbs have seen the harshest restrictions including the local government areas of Bayside, Blacktown, Burwood, Campbelltown, Canterbury-Bankstown, Cumberland, Fairfield, Georges River, Liverpool, Parramatta Strathfield or some suburbs of Penrith

'This is nothing Australia has seen before. Even in very strict and harsh lockdowns, the virus is spreading,' Ms Berejiklian said. 

'That is a fact. What we need to do is protect ourselves and loved ones by staying at home and getting vaccinated.'  

Mr Hazzard said those breaking the laws and attending illegal parties are playing roulette with the state's future.

'There is no time now to be selfish — it's time to think of the broader community and your families. If you are actually spreading the virus, you could be responsible for peoples' deaths,' Mr Hazzard said to reporters

 'There is no time now to be selfish — it's time to think of the broader community and your families. If you are actually spreading the virus, you could be responsible for peoples' deaths,' Mr Hazzard said to reporters

'There are those amongst us who don't seem to give a damn. They are out attending parties, they are out doing what they have been told not to do, facilitating the spread of the virus,' he said.

'I would just say to them, you are ransoming our future, you are making sure that none of us can get back to a normal life.' 

In Sydney 1,500 officers were deployed on Saturday to stop a growing threat posed by protesters who wanted to march on the city's worst day of the Covid pandemic - with 825 cases recorded.

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Police officers have flooded Sydney's CBD amid fears of another anti-lockdown protest, with public transport and ride-share services all banned from entering the CBD to stop people gathering

Police officers have flooded Sydney's CBD amid fears of another anti-lockdown protest, with public transport and ride-share services all banned from entering the CBD to stop people gathering

The huge coordinated police presence and operation appeared to overwhelm protest efforts. Taxi and rideshare services were shut out of the city between 9am and 3pm, with companies facing fines of up to half a million dollars if they take passengers to the CBD and surrounds.

Police also encircled the city with a giant exclusion zone featuring checkpoints and road blocks and also prevented trains from stopping in the CBD.

A NSW Police spokeswoman said just before 1pm 'there have been arrests in and around the city'.

Scuffles broke out around Victoria Park, where one protest was due to begin, at the western edge of the CBD.

More than 1,500 officers were stationed at various points around the city including train stations and major roads to ensure groups of protesters were unable to gather

More than 1,500 officers were stationed at various points around the city including train stations and major roads to ensure groups of protesters were unable to gather

Premier Berejiklian pleaded for residents of NSW to follow orders and stay at home as the state reels from its worst day, pictured is a police roadblock set up to stop protestors entering the CBD

Premier Berejiklian pleaded for residents of NSW to follow orders and stay at home as the state reels from its worst day, pictured is a police roadblock set up to stop protestors entering the CBD

'I extend my deepest appreciation for the vast majority of people doing the right thing, the vast majority get its important to stay at home... I receive messages every day from people who express their personal circumstances about how difficult it is,' Premier Gladys Berejiklian said on Saturday morning

'I extend my deepest appreciation for the vast majority of people doing the right thing, the vast majority get its important to stay at home... I receive messages every day from people who express their personal circumstances about how difficult it is,' Premier Gladys Berejiklian said on Saturday morning

Premier Berejiklian pleaded for residents of NSW to follow orders and stay at home as the state reels from its worst day.

'I extend my deepest appreciation for the vast majority of people doing the right thing, the vast majority get its important to stay at home... I receive messages every day from people who express their personal circumstances about how difficult it is,' she said on Saturday morning.

'It really breaks my heart... but the bottom line is they know they are doing it for the greater good.

'I appeal to everybody, please consider the greater good. Only a handful of people are doing the wrong thing but it is having catastrophic consequences.'

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