Australian politics live: NSW health minister self-isolating and state parliament delayed after ‘likely positive’ Covid case – live

Obviously we will have more to say about that once police have completed their investigations, but let me make it very clear:

Everybody in New South Wales who works in our systems know their obligations, and we certainly look forward to providing certainty around what occurred in this situation, I am as upset and frustrated as anybody, we all worked so hard and it is really disappointing when things don’t go the way they should.

I live and breathe it every day and I feel it intensely everyday.

We also rely on tens of thousands of outstanding people every day to do jobs that we would not do, to be in contact with people with the virus, so I want to continue to think, from the bottom of my heart, all those people who put themselves on the line every day, but I also want to say to those people in and around the system who think complacency is OK, it’s not OK.

We know it and we feel it and we will get to the bottom of it, and if our government needs to do more to make it even more abundantly clear, I do note that everybody is well aware of their responsibilities but when police finished their inquiries which are broader than just applying the health orders, broader than just applying what has been spoken about, we will certainly do that. Our focus today though has to be, has to be on making sure anybody with the mildest of symptoms goes on gets tested, anyone deemed to close contact does not leave their home for 14 days. 14 days.

If you are a close contact you cannot leave your home, and to keep monitoring the health advice. The health advice is updated on a daily basis.

Venues, their status may change, people ‘s’ status may change, everybody has to be vigilant, and this is probably, if not the most, certainly one of the most concerning times I have experienced during the pandemic because we’re dealing with a virus that extremely contagious, and we are also dealing with a situation where many people may be forced into isolation in the days ahead and where many people will be asked to follow the health advice in a more vigilant way that they have ever been asked during the course of the pandemic