Australia has expanded a Covid-19 lockdown to a rural town and the coastal region of Byron Bay, as fears grew that the virus has spread from Sydney to the northern tip of the country's most populous state.
Tamworth, a farming town 414 km northwest of Sydney, and Byron Bay, a tourist spot about 770km north of the city, will both enter a seven-day lockdown, New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian said.
Neither Tamworth nor Byron Bay has yet recorded a Covid-19 case, but Ms Berejiklian said two infected people had contravened travel bans and travelled there. "As a precaution, the health experts have recommended we lock down Tamworth for one week," Ms Berejiklian told reporters.