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Three travellers who arrived in Melbourne on a dedicated Australian Open charter flight have tested positive to the highly contagious UK strain of Covid-19. The trio are not players, and have been in 'hard lockdown' in hotel quarantine since they landed.  It is the first time the virulent UK strain has been associated with the tournament. Health authorities fear an outbreak of the new strain would be devastating to the effort to keep the virus in check until vaccines can be rolled out to the Australian population. Pictured: A staff member wearing PPE works to clean surfaces at Melbourne Park on Thursday. Three travellers linked to the Australian Open have arrived in Melbourne carrying the highly contagious UK strain of Covid-19 Analysis by Imperial College London researchers confirmed the new UK strain is nearly 50 percent more transmissible, based on samples taken from nearly 86,000 Britons.  Victoria's health department said the three people infected are a teenage girl an

Australians who forget to 'check out' of venues may be unwillingly setting themselves up for 14 days of isolation. From the start of the year, all businesses in New South Wales have made it mandatory for customers to 'check in' via a QR code and register their details with the venue upon arrival. But the large majority of residents are often forgetting to then hit 'check out' when they leave the premises, meaning that on the Service NSW app they have been in the venue for an extended period of time. If a positive Covid-19 case visits the same business, those who were also there but didn't specify what time they left may then have to isolate for two weeks to ensure they don't spread the virus. From the start of the year, all businesses in New South Wales have made it mandatory for customers to 'check in' upon arriving at a venue but many are forgetting to 'check out' (Sydney shopper checks into business) Residents are encouraged to check i

A 21-year-old man has appeared in court over the murder of a teenage boy whose body was discovered on a river bank as tributes have flooded in following his death.  Cole Jarvis is  charged with the murder of 17-year-old Connor Lyons who was found on the banks of the River Hull at Ennerdale, East Yorkshire, on Tuesday.         Jarvis, 21, of Stroud Crescent West, Bransholme, was charged on Friday and appeared before magistrates in Hull on Saturday morning.   The body of the teenager was discovered at 8.20am on January 19 after police were called to the scene He is now due to appear at Hull Crown Court at 10am on Monday for a bail application, a representative for Hull Magistrates' Court said. Cole was remanded into custody and is due to appear via video link on Monday. The body of the teenager was discovered at 8.20am on January 19 after police were called to the scene.  Moving floral tributes have been left on the bank of the river in the Ennerdale area of  where the teenager was t

Thousands of Sydneysiders have raced down to Bondi to cool off at the beach as Australia's south-east battles through an 'extreme heatwave' over the Australia Day long weekend. Sydney was set to reach 30C on Saturday and by midday most of the city's beaches were completely packed.  Bondi Beach looked to be as busy as it was before the Covid-19 pandemic with families, friends and scantily clad swimmers filling up the sand.  The heatwave in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania is expected to last until Wednesday with residents being warned of heat exhaustion and fire dangers.  'We have a large high pressure system sitting out in the Tasman and inland trough and together they're acting to funnel in a hot northerly air mass,' the Bureau of Meteorology's Alexander Majchrowski said.  Beachgoers at Sydney's famous Bondi Beach. Australia's southeast will sweat through temperatures as high as 45C for the next four days as an 'extr