Health
How our summer COVID-19 clusters were snuffed out in good time – Sydney Morning Herald
The Casula cluster took 116 days to extinguish. Avalon took 43. One factor best explains the difference: geography.
It took 43 days since those first cases for NSW Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant to say she was confident the Avalon cluster on the northern beaches had been brought under control on Wednesday.
Sundays two-week zero streak comes 40 days after NSW Health reported a patient transport worker within the hotel quarantine system had also tested positive on December 22, sparking a cluster in Berala in western Sydney.
That compared to the 116 days it took for health authorities to bring NSWs case numbers…
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