Testing ‘the only way to manage the pandemic’: NSW health minister

NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard has pleaded with residents in Sydney’s Eastern suburbs to get tested if they present any COVID symptoms or if they have visited any potential exposure sites. He stressed that regardless of having received either one or two vaccine doses “and you’re in the eastern suburbs or you’ve been to any of these venues of concern, you’re still required to go and get tested”. “You must be tested, because that’s the only way that we can actually manage this one-in-100-year pandemic. “Up to date it’s worked very well but I am concerned that some who have had the vaccine may think that that’s the end of it, well it’s not the end of it. You may still get the virus … but you may still transmit it.” Premier Gladys Berejiklian today announced one community COVID case had been detected in a man in his 50s who was “very active” in Sydney’s inner east.

NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard has pleaded with residents in Sydney’s Eastern suburbs to get tested if they present any COVID symptoms or if they have visited any potential exposure sites.

He stressed that regardless of having received either one or two vaccine doses “and you’re in the eastern suburbs or you’ve been to any of these venues of concern, you’re still required to go and get tested”.

“You must be tested, because that’s the only way that we can actually manage this one-in-100-year pandemic.

“Up to date it’s worked very well but I am concerned that some who have had the vaccine may think that that’s the end of it, well it’s not the end of it. You may still get the virus … but you may still transmit it.”

Premier Gladys Berejiklian today announced one community COVID case had been detected in a man in his 50s who was “very active” in Sydney’s inner east.

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