SYDNEY (REUTERS) – Australia’s most populous state, New South Wales (NSW), maintained its steady downward trend in new Covid-19 infections on Thursday (Dec 24) as it battles to quash a virus cluster in the northern coastal suburbs of Sydney, the state capital.

New South Wales reported nine new Covid-19 local cases versus eight a day earlier, taking the total cases in the cluster to more than 100.

NSW on Wednesday (Dec 23) slightly eased coronavirus restrictions for the Christmas period after new daily cases slowed in recent days, though around a quarter of a million people in Sydney remained under lockdown.

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