NSW on 'extra high alert' for Covid-19 resurgence as hotel crackdown announced

Premier Gladys Berejiklian details stricter regime for pubs as cluster linked to the Crossroads Hotel grows to 30 cases

New South Wales is on extra high alert" for a widespread Covid-19 resurgence and will require so-called hygiene marshals to enforce social distancing at every pub in the state.

The crackdown comes after patrons who visited a Sydney hotel at the centre of the state's largest outbreak expressed concern over relaxed safety practices and the pub's manager conceded more could have been done to record visitors' contact details.