Coronavirus Australia live news: masks now mandatory in NSW as alert heightened for Sydney bottle shop | Australia news

Happy Sunday morning. Graham Readfearn here, taking you through the first chunk of our live coverage for the day.

Today delivers some changes for people in greater Sydney. People now have to wear a mask indoors in most places, with $200 fines coming in from tomorrow if they don’t.

Masks are shown to slow the virus spread by reducing respiratory droplets from spreading and being breathed in – protecting the wearer and the people around them.

Folk in the southern part of Sydney’s northern beaches are out of their home lockdowns and going to nice places, including cafes (where they’ll need to wear a mask).

Later this morning we’ll be getting updates from health authorities in New South Wales and Victoria about any new coronavirus cases and those growing lists of exposure sites.

Last night NSW Health added a list of times to the Berala BWS bottle shop when people with the virus visited between 22 December and 31 December.

Here are the main developments from yesterday:

• NSW recorded seven new Covid-19 cases and Victoria recorded 12.
• Genomic analysis linked the Victoria outbreak to the NSW outbreak.
  
• Queensland confirmed one new case but didn’t change any of its border restrictions.
• Tasmania closed its borders to people who had visited a list of nine hotspots in Victoria.

We’ve summarised border restrictions and keep a list of hotspots that we update as things change.

Let’s go.