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Mask rules return amid uptick in COVID-19 cases

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Cars queue as people wait to receive a COVID test at a drive through testing facility at Bondi beach Source: AAP

New South Wales and Victoria are bringing back mask mandates from midnight on Friday 24 December. It comes as New South Wales sets a national record of more than 5-thousand new daily COVID-19 cases, with Omicron now the dominant variant.


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By Arianna Lucente

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New South Wales and Victoria are bringing back mask mandates from midnight on Friday 24 December. It comes as New South Wales sets a national record of more than 5-thousand new daily COVID-19 cases, with Omicron now the dominant variant.



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