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Byron Bay’s ‘body-to-body’ crowds and bungled COVID sewerage tests worry locals

Byron Bay locals fear a deadly cocktail is brewing as visitors flock to the popular destination for New Year’s Eve celebrations, amid news that authorities have bungled the local COVID sewerage testing results.
Key points:
- Travellers from across Australia have been gathering in numbers each night at Byron Bay’s foreshore park and beaches
- Authorities confirm sewerage samples taken for COVID testing were “rendered invalid” by being mistakenly frozen
- Police will be out in force today and this evening
Locals have been working overtime in recent days to clean up rubbish and broken glass after nightly parties in the town’s foreshore parks and beaches.
Police on high alert
Police are investigating an incident last night where as many as 10 young…
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