NSW records another COVID-19 case, restrictions return
NSW has recorded a second case of COVID-19 as health authorities zero in on a Sydney man contracted the virus.
The latest coronavirus case is the wife of a man in his 50s, in Sydney's eastern suburbs, who tested positive to the virus yesterday.They are among more than 11,500 people who were tested for COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 8pm last night. However, lab technicians were still trying to find the "missing link" between the traveller from the US and the Sydney man.
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