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A woman has been charged with high range drink driving on our South Coast yesterday.
About 2.30pm Friday, South Coast Police received several calls from the public regarding the manner of driving by a silver Mazda 323 on the Princes Highway, Mogo. Officers attached to Batemans Bay Highway Patrol located the vehicle travelling north on the Princes Highway and stopped it just south of Batemans Bay.
Police spoke with the driver of the Mazda, a 44 year old woman, and observed a 6 year old girl in the back seat. The woman was subjected to a roadside breath test which returned a positive result. She was arrested taken to Batemans Bay Police Station where she underwent a breath analysis and allegedly returned a reading of 0.273.
The woman was issued with a Field Court Attendance Notice (FCAN) for high-range PCA and her license was also suspended. She is due to appear at Batemans Bay Local Court on Monday 9th August 2021.
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NSW has recorded the highest number of daily COVID-19 cases since the state's first wave, as Sydney and its surrounds pass the halfway point of a 14-day lockdown.
But only a third of the new cases were in isolation for the entirety of their illness, prompting concerns the lockdown rules imposed on Greater Sydney, the Central Coast, Blue Mountains and Wollongong will be extended beyond July 9.
Some 31 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 were diagnosed in the 24 hours to 8pm on Thursday, taking the outbreak tally to 226 cases.
Five of the newly reported cases remain under investigation.
Of the cases, only 11 were in isolation for the entire time.
Premier Gladys Berejiklian on Friday said she was relieved local case numbers had not significantly spiked in recent days, but authorities wanted to see a rise in the proportion of new cases already in isolation.
"I will say that the next few days are critical," she told reporters.
"Come early next week we do want to see that tide turned."
Eight of the new cases are associated with a 24-year-old student nurse who worked up to five days while infectious with COVID-19.
The cluster around the nurse now tallies 10, including five healthcare or aged care workers. Four of them worked while infectious, while one did not.
Almost 400 staff and patients deemed close contacts are in isolation, with authorities bracing for more cases.
A record 73,602 people were tested in the 24-hour reporting period.
The record for the daily number of vaccines administered by NSW Health was also broken, with 21,289 people jabbed in the 24-hour period.
However, Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant refused to be drawn on whether she would advise that the lockdown, due to end next Friday, be extended.
Dr Chant said she would be looking closely at the number of new cases which were in isolation and at unlinked chains of transmission.
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Kieran Woolley never dreamed of being an Olympian, in fact he barely took more than a passing interest in the Games as a kid.
But the 17-year-old is now in rare company as one of five members of Australia's first Olympic skateboarding team, joining Poppy Starr Olsen, Keegan Palmer, Hayley Wilson and Shane O'Neill in heading to Tokyo for the sport's Games debut.
Woolley, Olsen and Palmer will contest the Park event, with Wilson and O'Neill to compete in the Street discipline.
Woolley is the third youngest of all the athletes who have been named on Australia's Olympic team to date, with only fellow 17-year-olds Isaac Cooper and Mollie O'Callaghan - who are both on the swim team - younger.
While thrilled with the chance to be a part of history, he admits to being a fairly recent Olympics devotee - with his sporting loves skateboarding and surfing set to be contested for the first time in Tokyo.
"I didn't even watch the Olympics as a kid, I wasn't really fascinated by it at all," Woolley told AAP from his base in the US.
"(It was more) X-Games, Vans Park Series', putting out videos, just getting in the streets.
"It means the world to me (now) - I'm representing the best country ever.
"It's amazing - I can't wait to hopefully make everybody proud and bring home a medal."
The Australian contingent are expected to be right in the medal hunt in Tokyo.
Olsen is world No.4 in Women's Park rankings, right behind 12-year-old British sensation Sky Brown, while Palmer (No.7 in Men's Park) and Wilson (No.9 in Women's Street) are also in the top 10 in their discipline.
O'Neill, who at 31 is by far the oldest member of the group, is a former a world championship gold and silver medallist.
While Friday's announcement was confirmation of the team, all five skaters have known for some time they would be heading to Tokyo.
Woolley learned of his qualification while sitting in a hotel room in Iowa in May. He was amongst a group of Australian skaters who had flown to the US in the hope of earning valuable ranking points to shore up his Olympic qualification at a Dew Series event.
But when three members of the Australian contingent were confirmed to have contracted COVID-19, the entire group was barred from competing - leaving Woolley to rely on results falling his way to secure qualification.
"There were enough points on the table that if certain people made the finals they could get ahead of him," said his dad Mark, who travelled with Kieran to the US.
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The next few days in NSW are "critical" as the state continues to record new COVID-19 cases in people who have been infectious in the community.
Premier Gladys Berejiklian on Friday said she was relieved local case numbers had not significantly spiked in recent days, but authorities wanted to see a rise in the proportion of new cases already in isolation.
NSW recorded 31 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 to 8pm on Thursday, the highest daily number in the state since the pandemic's first wave in early 2020.
The new case numbers take the tally to 226 since June 16.
Fifteen of the cases were in the community for all or part of their infectious period, while 11 were in isolation for the entire time.
Five of the newly reported cases remain under investigation.
Ms Berejiklian said the current numbers reflected the days leading up to the announcement last Saturday of the 14-day lockdown of Greater Sydney and surrounds.
"I will say that the next few days are critical," she told reporters.
"Come early next week we do want to see that tide turned."
Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant refused to be drawn on whether she would advise that the lockdown, due to end next Friday, be extended.
Dr Chant said she would be looking closely at the number of new cases which were in isolation and at unlinked chains of transmission.
Some 27 of the new cases are linked to previously confirmed cases.
Eight of the new cases are associated with a 24-year-old student nurse who worked up to five days while infectious with COVID-19.
The cluster around the nurse now tallies 10, including five healthcare or aged care workers. Four of them worked while infectious, while one did not.
Almost 400 staff and patients deemed close contacts are in isolation.
NSW Health on Friday afternoon also issued a new close contact alert for Coles at Bondi Junction's Eastgate Shopping Centre.
Anyone at the supermarket between 2pm and 7pm on Tuesday and between 5.30pm and 6.30pm on Wednesday must get tested and isolate for 14 days.
Shoppers at certain times last Saturday will be casual contacts.
The alert follows earlier warnings for potential exposure sites including the T2 domestic terminal at Sydney Airport, the Des Renford Swimming Pool at Maroubra in Sydney's east and Club Marconi at Bossley Park in the west.
The virus has been spreading more in retail settings amid lockdown than in hospitality venues, beauticians and hairdressers, Dr Chant said.
"Please don't go out and about shopping in retail if you've got any symptoms," she said.
A record 73,602 people were tested in the 24-hour reporting period.
The record for the daily number of vaccines administered by NSW Health was also broken, with 21,289 people jabbed in the 24-hour period.
The record comes as pharmacies plead to be more involved in NSW's vaccine rollout, having been enlisted on Thursday to administer jabs.
A trial involving 22 pharmacies in regional NSW administering AstraZeneca from mid-July is not enough, the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia said.
The limited trial "still misses the mark", NSW branch president Chelsea Felkai said, and the full pharmacist workforce should be deployed.
"We desperately need a patient-centric approach that puts the community first, but it is apparent that the NSW government's approach to the rollout does not support this," Ms Felkai said in a statement.
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