 A new South Wales Australia's most populous state reported 210 locally acquired cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, July 31. Saturday numbers bring the outbreak of 3,190 cases. Following the news, police condoned off downtown Sydney with multiple checkpoints to prevent a planned anti-lockdown protest. The city and its facilities have been under weeks long strict lockdown and this is to last at least until the end of August. Of those tests, we had 210 cases locally acquired, there were two overseas acquired. I'd like to begin by sending one final message to anyone who is intending to go into the city to engage in protest activity. Do not do it. Our policing operation has been in place since early this morning up to a thousand police officers including a range of specialist resources are on the ground already so do not go into the city to protest. Very very shocking. I was shocked. I was embarrassed actually. I had friends from overseas in WhatsApp asking me about it and I was shocked. I didn't think it was, it's not what we do here. We generally, mostly, all do the right thing but I was shocked with 3,500 and that's a lot of people and potentially 100 conservatively could have had COVID. Absolutely not. It's ridiculous. Obviously quite concerned that there's going to be cases that come from it. People in the comments, is it a week or two ago were sort of saying that they were positive in the crowd so it's not going to be a good result either way. For sure, given that we know what coronavirus can do, it's pretty outrageous to be having a protest at this moment in time.