Fifty new Covid exposure sites have been revealed including the usual dozens of Sydney supermarkets, cafes and takeaways – as well as busy shops in the state’s north.

Of the six close contact sites, meaning people must isolate for 14 days regardless of test results, five are around Byron Bay after a Covid-infected Sydneysider visited the town with his two teenage children, who also have the virus.

Woolworths and Japonaise Kitchen in Byron Bay, as well as Bangalow Pharmacy and Foodworks in the same village, have been put on alert, as well as Harvest Cafe in nearby Newrybar.

Fifty new Covid exposure sites have been revealed including the usual dozens of Sydney supermarkets, cafes and takeaways (pictured, a resident buying fruit in  Bankstown)

Fifty new Covid exposure sites have been revealed including the usual dozens of Sydney supermarkets, cafes and takeaways (pictured, a resident buying fruit in  Bankstown)

The trendy barbershop Barber Industries in the Newcastle suburb of Kotara is the sixth venue that features on the new list. 

An array of new casual contact sites have also been added to the ever-developing list of 50 new sites, with Blacktown in the city’s west the hardest hit. 

A 7-Eleven, Max Brenner, Nando’s, an auto-parts store and a busy Woolworths all feature on the list of new high-risk sites. 

The popular Balkan Oven Bakery Café in Rockdale in the city’s south has been exposed to the virus for over two weeks. 

Any customers who visited the café anytime between Saturday, July 24 and Saturday, August 7 has been urged to get tested for Covid-19. 

The Newcastle Basketball Stadium in Broadmeadow near the regional city’s CBD has also been put on high alert after it was visited by a positive case of the virus. 

New Byron Covid exposure sites 

Anyone who visited these locations at the listed times is a close contact and must get a Covid test immediately and self-isolate for 14 days, regardless of the test result. 

Bangalow Foodworks on August 2 between 9.45am and 11.15am

Bangalow Pharmacy on August 5 between 11am and 11.30am and August 6 between 11am and 11.30am

Byron Bay Japonaise Kitchen on August 6 between 5pm and 5.30pm

Byron Bay Woolworths on August 4 between 2.30pm and 4pm

Newrybar Harvest Cafe on August 7 between 9.45am and 10.20am

Anyone who travelled on the following bus routes at the listed times is a close contact and must get tested and isolate for 14 days, regardless of the result:

Bus 269: Booragul to Warners Bay – Tuesday August 3, 10:15am – 10:27am, Wednesday August 4, 10:18am – 10:30am and Thursday August 5 from 10:16am – 10:28am 

For casual contact sites visit NSW Health. 

People living or visiting student accomodation at the University of Newcastle’s Callaghan campus have also been put on high alert.  

The North Residence, South Residence, East Residence, West Residence,  Barahineban and Evatt House were exposed to Covid-19 over two days last week. 

Anyone who attended the residences have been asked to get tested for the virus immediately and isolate until a negative result is received. 

The same advice applies for shoppers who visited the Chester Hill Woolworths on seven separate days over the last two weeks.

It’s a similar story for any customers who visited the Woolworths branch in Blacktown which was also exposed to the virus over seven days. 

A further two branches of the same supermarket have been put on high alert, in Newcastle West and North Ryde. 

Byron Bay's Woolworths store was exposed to the virus after a Covid infected man travelled there with his two teenage children, who also tested positive

Byron Bay's Woolworths store was exposed to the virus after a Covid infected man travelled there with his two teenage children, who also tested positive

Byron Bay’s Woolworths store was exposed to the virus after a Covid infected man travelled there with his two teenage children, who also tested positive 

The Covid-positive man, aged in his 50s, who triggered the lockdown of the entire Northern Rivers region checked himself in to the Lismore Base Hospital (pictured)

The Covid-positive man, aged in his 50s, who triggered the lockdown of the entire Northern Rivers region checked himself in to the Lismore Base Hospital (pictured)

The Covid-positive man, aged in his 50s, who triggered the lockdown of the entire Northern Rivers region checked himself in to the Lismore Base Hospital (pictured)

The new high-risk venues in Byron Bay come after NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian took the drastic step of shutting down the entire Northern Rivers region on Monday. 

The entire region was locked down over fears the Covid-positive man in his 50s who travelled from Sydney may have spread the virus throughout the community.

A NSW’s Covid update on Monday morning, chief health officer Kerry Chant confirmed the man had travelled from Sydney to Byron Bay in late July.

She said two of his household contacts, believed to be his two daughters, are now waiting on their test results after he checked himself into Lismore Base Hospital.

About 300,000 residents who are now under the same tough restrictions as Greater Sydney, Hunter Valley, New England and Tamworth, wait with baited breath as to whether the number of infections in the area will rapidly rise.

Meanwhile the Covid-positive man who triggered the outbreak is refusing to assist contact tracers because he ‘does not believe in Covid’, it has been revealed.

Health authorities are trying desperately to uncover where the conspiracy theorist has travelled in the area so they can alert anyone who may have been put at risk.

But so far they have not been able to ascertain where the ‘uncooperative’ man has been despite repeated interviews, with no information appearing on any mandatory QR code check-ins – which he had refused to use.

The Newcastle Basketball Stadium in Broadmeadow near the regional city's CBD has also been put on high alert after it was visited by a positive case of the virus

The Newcastle Basketball Stadium in Broadmeadow near the regional city's CBD has also been put on high alert after it was visited by a positive case of the virus

The Newcastle Basketball Stadium in Broadmeadow near the regional city’s CBD has also been put on high alert after it was visited by a positive case of the virus

The restrictions will be the same rules as those already in place across Greater Sydney, as well as Tamworth, Armidale, Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, Maitland, Port Stephens, Singleton, Dungog, Muswellbrook and Cessnock.

The Covid scare in the state’s locked-down city of Tamworth comes after a woman, who was exposed to the virus in Newcastle, visited several venues including a pub, cafe and hotel on August 4. 

Ms Berejiklian announced that area’s seven-day lockdown would begin from 5pm on Monday with interstate travel would remain restricted until Greater Sydney got the current Indian Delta outbreak under control. 

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