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A trivia night at an inner-west Sydney pub last month is the source of a new COVID-19 cluster after 44 people were diagnosed with the virus.
Despite the rise in cases, NSW Premier Dom Perrottet says that 'it is time to go out and live alongside the virus'.
'It is time to go out and learn to live alongside the virus. I want people to go out and enjoy the best of what Sydney has to offer,' he said.
'I think it’s great people going out and having a party again, enjoying their Christmas parties, so they should, that’s the great aspect of our city.
'As we start to enjoy life again, as we have in the past, people will contract COVID,' Perrottet said.
The pub patrons were diagnosed after the trivia night at the popular Oxford Tavern in Petersham on November 30, Sydney Local Health District said on Wednesday night.
'Anyone who was there that night is considered a close contact and must get tested
