Coronavirus Australia: Covid seeps into central western NSW as Sydney’s buses thrown into chaos

Sydney’s transport system is thrown into chaos as two bus drivers test positive to Covid and 19 services cancelled – with the virus seeping into central western NSW and another school

• Dubbo in NSW central-west on high alert after Covid case at a local school
• 19 bus services cancelled after two staff members at depot tested positive 

By Kylie Stevens For Daily Mail Australia

Published: 22:27 BST, 10 August 2021 | Updated: 22:51 BST, 10 August 2021

Another New South Wales region could be plunged into lockdown after a coronavirus case emerged at a school in the state’s central west.

Residents in Dubbo and surrounding areas have been urged to get tested after a case emerged at Dubbo West Public School.

The school has been closed after the Department of Education was advised by NSW Health of the infection late Tuesday night.

Staff and students have been ordered to isolate and get tested if symptoms emerge.

Sydney’s public transport system has also been thrown into chaos after two staff at a bus depot in Leichhardt tested positive.

Bus services have been cancelled after two staff at a bus depot tested positive, forcing a number of bus drivers into isolation

Nineteen services in the city’s inner-west will be cancelled for the next two days after a number of drivers were deemed as close Covid contacts.

Around 38,000 residents in Dubbo and surrounding areas are on high alert after authorities found fragments of the virus in the city and nearby Mudgee last weekend.

More than six million people in Sydney and surrounds are now in lockdown until at least August 28, with the Hunter, Byron Bay, Armidale and Tamworth areas also enduring snap lockdowns.

Fennel Bay Public School at Lake Macquarie, near Newcastle is also closed on Wednesday after a student tested positive to COVID.

NSW recorded 356 new infections on Tuesday, it’s worst ever rise in daily infections. 

More to come. 

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