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New South Wales has recorded a single-digit rise in coronavirus cases, the first time new infections have dropped below double figures in more than two weeks.Key points:
- NSW Health says the number of COVID-19 cases under investigation is rising
- One of the new cases is at a girls school in north-west Sydney
- Two Sydney hotels were issued fines this morning for breaching social distancing rules
The last time the state saw fewer than 10 overnight infections was on July 24, with seven cases — six of them associated with the Thai Rock cluster in Wetherill Park.
Although COVID-19 daily cases numbers have been steadily decreasing over the past week, NSW Health has warned that mystery infections are rising.
"While most of the cases in the past week have been associated with local clusters and close contacts with known cases, nine have not been linked to known cases, indicating COVID-19 is circulating in the community," NSW Health said in a statement.
"It's extremely important we all play our part in prevention all the time."
For the latest news on the COVID-19 pandemic read our coronavirus live blog.In the 24 hours leading up to 8:00pm on Friday health authorities recorded nine new infections out of 24,421 COVID-19 tests.
Three cases are under investigation, four are close contacts of known cases, and the remaining two are returned international travellers in hotel quarantine.
One of the cases under investigation is a student of Tangara School for Girls in Cherrybrook, north-west of Sydney.
The school has been closed for cleaning and contact tracing.
The other cases under investigation are close contacts of each other.
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The latest figures come after a slew of border restrictions implemented by the NSW Government in light of the large virus outbreak in Victoria.
NSW authorities have vowed to clamp down on social distancing breaches, and today announced they had handed out $5,000 fines to a pair of Sydney hotels.
Liquor and Gaming NSW said its inspectors visited the Unity Hall Hotel in Balmain and The Eastern Hotel in Bondi Junction on Wednesday and found several breaches.
The agency's director of compliance, Dimitri Argeres, said inspectors found Unity Hall had an out-of-date safety plan, failed to detail the time of entry of patrons, and did not digitise those records within 24 hours.
At the Bondi venue, inspectors viewed CCTV and found patrons at gaming machines were too close to each other.
"The licensee has since advised us that he will turn off every second machine to ensure compliance with the public health order," Mr Argeres said.
"These latest breaches mean a total of 18 venues across NSW have now been fined for COVID safety breaches in the past month."
He warned venues who were caught a second time would be shut down.
To keep the COVID-19 outbreak under control we need to keep growth factor below 1.0
Australia's current
growth factor is 1.01
