澳洲新闻 (ABC新闻快递) 英国新冠病毒变种传染性激增 40多国禁止英国旅客入境（在线收听）

Health authorities are in a race against time to track down hundreds of people across Sydney who may have come into contact with positive cases as Christmas gatherings hang in the balance. Overnight, New South Wales Health has added 13 more locations to the list of places in Sydney where COVID-19 could have been spread, including busy pubs and a large gym. 83 cases have now been linked to the cluster which first emerged at Avalon.

Other states are now enforcing tough rules on arrivals from New South Wales. Hard border closures have been re-introduced in Queensland overnight with anyone entering the state from the greater Sydney hotspot now sent into quarantine. And Victorians who fail to return home from Sydney or the New South Wales central coast will now also have to quarantine if they try to come back across the border.

Victoria's premier Daniel Andrews says a lack of oversight rather than the use of private security was the key failing of the state's botched hotel quarantine scheme. The final report from the inquiry into the bungled program found no-one had taken ownership of the decision to engage private guards.

And European Union officials are meeting in Brussels to decide on a coordinated response to prevent the spread of a more contagious strain of coronavirus from Britain. More than 40 countries have banned UK arrivals, while trucks have banked up at ports after France imposed a 48-hour ban on entry. Supermarket shelves in Britain have been stripped bare.

卫生部门正与时间赛跑，在悉尼各地追查数百名可能与阳性病例接触的人，而圣诞能否聚会仍是未知数。一夜之间，新南威尔士卫生部门报告的悉尼可能传播新冠肺炎的地点就增加了13个，其中包括繁忙的酒吧和一个大型健身房。目前已有83例病例与最先出现在阿瓦隆的聚集性疫情有关。

其他州目前将对新南威尔士州人员实施严厉的规定。夜间，昆士兰州重新实行了严格的边境封锁措施，任何从大悉尼热点地区进入该州的人员都将被隔离。不能从悉尼或新南威尔士州中央海岸回家的维多利亚州居民，在试图越过边界回家时，也必须进行隔离。

维多利亚州州长丹尼尔·安德鲁斯表示，该州酒店隔离计划失败的主要原因是缺乏监督，而不是采用私人警卫。这项失败计划的最终版调查报告发现，没有人对雇佣私人警卫的决定负责。

欧盟官员正在布鲁塞尔开会，以商定协调一致的应对措施，防止更具传染性的冠状病毒从英国扩散出去。目前已有超过40个国家禁止英国人员入境，而在法国实施持续48小时的入境禁令后，港口有大量卡车严重堵塞。英国超市的货架已被搬空。