Photographs from around the Potts Point COVID-19 outbreak area.
A pop up testing clinic has been set up in Rushcutters Bay, just up the road from the prestigious Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, where a case of the virus was reported last week. The Apollo restaurant, which was deep-cleaned on Friday, along with the Thai Rock restaurant, have also both been centres of outbreaks.
How these COVID clusters in Sydney’s wealthy, mostly white eastern suburbs have been treated by authorities and the mainstream media stands in stark contrast to similar outbreaks in Sydney’s south west, or in Victoria’s public housing estates, where police descended and locked down the overwhelmingly poor, multicultural community overnight.
Community sports, where teams of up to 20 (40 on a field in close contact at once) also stands in contrast to the recent Black Lives Matter protest of around 50 people at the Domain, which was shutdown by around 500 police. Meanwhile, crowds of up to 10,000 are currently allowed at large commercial sporting events.
As the number of cases of COVID-19 continues to rise in NSW, more and more people are beginning at wear masks, as was evidenced today around the eastern suburbs and the Sydney Opera House.
All this, while Victoria is due to go into Stage 4 lockdown on Wednesday.
Part of an ongoing series, ‘COVID-19 Diaries’.
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