Coronavirus Australia live news: NSW Cabinet talks to decide duration of Sydney’s lockdown, Victorian contact tracing underway to investigate cross-border case

NSW Government to decide on Christmas restrictions

As you may have seen in the news this morning, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian’s “crisis Cabinet” will meet today to make the highly anticipated decision on how people across Sydney will spend their Christmas Day.

The ruling will come down to the wire, as the Government and health authorities analyse “hour by hour” NSW COVID-19 data.

  
There are two groups of people to consider: those on the northern beaches and the rest of Greater Sydney.

“Clearly we are very much in the hands of Dr Kerry Chant and the public health team,” Health Minister Brad Hazzard said.

  
“And their assessment of the relative risk of moving away from what we know has already worked to bring down…