"We do need to brace ourselves for a potentially large number of cases in the following days," said Gladys Berejiklian, the Premier of New South Wales state.
Restrictions will be effective from Tuesday and will remain in place till July 1
Under the new advisory, passengers between 30 and 50 years of age without valid vaccination certificates may be allowed to board a flight to GB after producing a negative PCR test result conducted within 72 hours prior to the scheduled time of travel
"Considering the current situation, there is no room for relaxation. We do not want [a repeat] of the situation from last June and July," he said.
Elaborating his government's decision to change business timings, he said "We had said earlier that markets would be allowed to remain open till 8 pm, but we are reverting back to 6 pm. A notification in this regard will be issued today."
A First Information Report has been registered against Jhagra after he attended an Iftar dinner at a hotel situated in his constituency
The pictures of the event went viral on social media, where Jhagra and several others could be seen without face masks and not following social distancing rules
Nearly 9,000 new infections in the past 24 hours took the country's caseload to 1,006,428 -- the second-highest in Southeast Asia -- with 16,853 fatalities, government figures show.