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Sydney’s Swelling Covid Outbreak Risks Scuppering Christmas

  • City’s 5 million residents must limit gatherings this week
  • Covid cluster on Northern Beaches has increased to 83
Photographer: Lisa Maree Williams/Bloomberg
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Sydney’s 5 million residents are being urged to curb activities over the next few days to avoid fanning a coronavirus outbreak that’s closed state borders and threatens to scupper Christmas festivities.