As it happened: NSW to crack down on large gatherings over the long weekend; WA considers easing restrictions on visitors from Victoria

Summary

• Victoria reached 18 days without community transmission on Sunday and Queensland went to 12-straight days of no local transmission. NSW made it seven-straight days without a local case.
• Three positive cases of coronavirus in hotel quarantine connected to the Australian Open have been found to be carrying the highly-transmissible UK variant of the virus, following genomic testing.
• Authorities are recording ‘shocking’ numbers of children suffering from mental health conditions connected to the pandemic with experts calling for more services to be allocated to children.
• Traces of the virus that causes COVID-19 have been detected in sewage in Sydney’s west, despite the state recording no new locally acquired cases for six days in a row.
• New Zealand has reported its first case of community transmission in more than two months, although there was no immediate evidence the coronavirus was spreading.