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Over on Sydney radio 2GB NSW police minister David Elliott said he met with with premier Dominic Perrottet and health minister Brad Hazzard on Sunday about what NSW would do:

I'm not panicking at the moment because it appears that this is going to be the new normal.

We need to prepare and ... make sure that we're flexible and agile when it comes to variations and we need to be defensive and that defensive mechanism of course, is the vaccination.

So, we're taking a risk-balanced approach at the moment and concentrating on those nine southern African countries.

We have increased our surveillance at the border, and after the border, we're working very closely with our colleagues in New South Wales and Victoria, particularly, because they're the ones that have had quarantine-free travel, as well as in the ACT, as to what is the best approach.