Dozens of basketball players are forced into isolation as the entire court is declared a close contact exposure site
Dozens of basketball players have been ordered to self-isolate after they played at a popular court visited by a Covid-19 case.
The Koonoona Park basketball courts in Villawood in Sydney’s south west is among the latest venue listed on NSW Health’s list of exposure sites.
Anyone who attended the basketball court last Sunday (August 22) between 1pm and 6pm is deemed as a close contact and must immediately get tested and isolate for 14 days from the day they were there, regardless of the test result.
A host of casual contact sites across NSW were listed on Sunday afternoon.
They included Berkeley, Erina, Gosford, Kotara and Raymond Terrace on the NSW Central Coast, along with Dubbo and Narromine in the state’s west.
Anyone deemed as a casual contact must immediately get tested and isolate until they get a negative result, even if they’ve had a test in recent days.
It comes after a horror day for NSW with a record 1218 new cases and six more deaths.
More to come.