Trans-Tasman travel bubble suspended again amid NSW outbreak

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The Trans-Tasman travel bubble has been suspended after a few cases of COVID community transmission appeared across Sydney.

While only two community cases have been identified – a husband and wife – NSW authorities have yet to identify the “missing link” that transmitted the virus from the returning traveller into the community:

“What we’re concerned about is that there is a missing link. We can’t find any direct link between our case, so what we’re concerned about is there is another person as yet unidentified that infected our case,” [Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant said] said on Thursday…

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.