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The NRL is investigating if regional venues can host games from round 17 while this weekend's matches in Sydney are to go ahead as scheduled but without crowds.
In a hook-up between club bosses and NRL CEO Andrew Abdo on Monday night, Sydney-based teams were told they would remain in the city during its two-week coronavirus lockdown.
Their round 16 games will proceed as scheduled on the Central Coast, in Penrith, at Bankwest Stadium and at Leichhardt but fans will be locked out.
It's still unclear what size crowd will be able to attend Suncorp Stadium for Brisbane's clash with Cronulla on Sunday, after the Queensland capital was flung into a three-day lockdown on Tuesday.
Options for beyond this weekend were discussed at Tuesday's ARL Commission meeting, with 13 of the 16 clubs now based in lockdown zones.
One option would include keeping Sydney teams training at their home bases while moving their matches to the bush from next week to allow crowds to attend.
"We're working on it, depending on each day's infection rate and where the infection is," ARL Commission Peter V'landys told AAP.
"If it hasn't left Sydney, that is important.
"It would just be the games (being moved) at the moment. It's an option, we're investigating."
The Sydney Roosters have already moved Thursday night's clash with Melbourne to Newcastle, where a crowd of around 15,000 can attend.
The Storm announced on Tuesday that they would return to Melbourne to escape Queensland's COVID-19 scare after seven weeks based on the Sunshine Coast.
With cases of the highly-contagious COVID-19 Delta strain popping up in different states, planning for State of Origin III in a fortnight is also problematic.
No decision on the Origin venue was made at Tuesday's commission meeting, with the NSWRL pushing for Newcastle if the game can't be held in Sydney as scheduled.
Whether it can go ahead there or, potentially in Melbourne or on the Gold Coast, will depend on the virus' spread.
Josh Dugan became the latest player to break the NRL's bubble with the Cronulla centre placed into isolation after visiting a Sydney restaurant.
Dugan was spotted at a Potts Point venue over the weekend, days after players were placed in level-three restrictions by the NRL.
The venue is not considered a place of concern by NSW Health and Dugan is not a close contact of a case, but his visit still contravened NRL guidelines.
He became the eighth NRL player placed into isolation.
Five Canterbury players visited a Bondi pub last Sunday night, just days after the NRL ordered its athletes not to eat out in Sydney's eastern suburbs.
Dylan Napa, Brandon Wakeham, Corey Waddell, Sione Katoa and uncapped youngster Aaron Schoupp have since become close contacts of a case and have been ordered into 14 days of isolation.
Warriors Euan Aitken and Josh Curran will also miss this weekend's game against St George Illawarra after being on the same flight as a confirmed case.
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Less than a week after being sworn in as deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce has had a run in with the law - after he was nabbed not wearing a face mask.
The Nationals leader was dobbed in to Crime Stoppers by a member of the public in his home town of Armidale on Monday morning, after he was spotted without a face mask while paying for petrol after filling up at the bowser.
Police say they checked the service station's CCTV and issued a $200 fine to a 54-year-old man for breaching an order under the NSW Public Health Act.
State Emergency Operations Controller, Deputy Commissioner Gary Worboys said it was just one of 54 breaches of NSW public health orders on Monday.
"Police were alerted to that. They took some action . That person was apologetic and co-operative with police and an infringement notice was issued," he told reporters on Tuesday.
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Supermarket giant Woolworths has imposed a two-packet limit on toilet paper purchases in its NSW stores amid a COVID-19 lockdown in Greater Sydney and surrounds.
It follows the decision of grocery rival Coles over the weekend to impose the same purchase limit.
Woolworths said in a statement on Monday that their decision was based on a spike in demand for the product.
Both grocers have repeatedly emphasised there is no need to panic buy toilet paper amid the COVID-19 outbreak as stock is plentiful and supply chains are not disrupted.
"We have plenty of stock in our supply chain, and our team members will be hard at work making sure it flows into our stores in large volumes for our customers," Woolworths NSW general manager Michael Mackenzie said.
"As always, we encourage our customers to be mindful of others in the community and buy only what they need."
Supermarket Aldi has been contacted for comment.
Supermarkets have never closed amid the pandemic and COVID-19, which is a respiratory illness that does not cause intestinal upset.
Flinders University psychology senior lecturer Dan Fassnacht, an expert in compulsive buying, last month said panic buying served as a balm for anxiety amid the pandemic.
He said the behaviour offered the illusion of control.
The Greater Sydney, Central Coast, Blue Mountains, Wollongong and Shellharbour areas will be under stay-at-home provisions for at least 14 days amid the Bondi COVID-19 cluster.
That cluster on Monday afternoon numbered 130 people.
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South Australia has imposed a range of new local COVID-19 restrictions in response to the growing number of virus cases around the country.
From midnight on Monday masks will be mandatory in high-risk settings, including aged care facilities and hospitals and will be highly recommended on public transport.
A new density arrangement of one person to every two square metres will be enforced in cafes, pubs, restaurants and other venues while private gatherings will be limited to 150 people.
People consuming food and drink at indoor venues must be seated.
Premier Steven Marshall said it was hoped the new measures would only be required for a week.
But he said the government had to act quickly given the potential for the rapid spread of the Delta variant of COVID-19.
"Given the nature of the rapid spread of the Delta variant we have no option but to take pre-emptive action to keep South Australians safe," the premier said.
"We have to be very vigilant at the moment."
The new measures follow SA's move on Sunday to close its border to Queensland, WA, the NT and the ACT after previously locking out travellers from NSW.
Chief Public Health Officer Nicola Spurrier said all the new restrictions and rules tried to balance the risk to health with the economic and social impact.
She said there were no new virus cases reported in SA on Monday, with all 29 miners from the Northern Territory, who were potentially exposed to the virus, returning negative results.
The workers were among 900 fly-in-fly-out personnel who recently left the Granites mine, north of Alice Springs, where one person tested positive last week.
Six virus cases have now been linked to the mine, including three in Darwin.
SA Health said the miners remained in isolation, along with their families.
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