A new hotspot map reveals how coronavirus has spread across Sydney after Melbourne’s second wave of infections jumped the border.
NSW recorded 13 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, following an outbreak of cases at the Crossroads Hotel in Casula, in the city’s south-west.
The ‘patient zero’ of the hotel outbreak has been identified as a Melbourne freight company employee who attended the venue on July 3.
NSW Health said there are now 50 cases associated with the Crossroads Hotel cluster and 26 cases linked to the Thai Rock restaurant at Wetherill Park.
Victoria reported 374 new coronavirus infections on Wednesday.
Pictured: A map showing coronavirus cases recorded since July 1. South-west Sydney has been hit the hardest, with 11 cases in the Liverpool local government area. The areas seen in the lightest shade of red have record one case in the past three weeks. The city’s inner west, eastern suburbs and northern beaches have so far remained unscathed
The map shows the Sydney hotspots battling coronavirus infections since July 1. There are currently 90 COVID-19 cases active in NSW.
In the Liverpool local government area, there are 11 active cases in Carnes Hill and Cecil Hills and eight in Casula and Chipping Norton following one positive test result in each over night.
Another coronavirus case was recorded in Bossley Park, in the Fairfield LGA, bringing the number of active cases in the suburb to three.
The Lower Blue Mountains saw an additional person test positive and the area now has five active coronavirus infections.
Sydney’s south recorded another positive case in Caringbah, taking the suburb’s active number of cases to two, while another infection was recorded in Grays Point.
There are five active cases in Airds, Ambarvale and Appin in the Campbelltown LGA and five in Bardia, the Liverpool LGA.
Belmore, in Sydney’s inner south-west, has four active coronavirus cases.
Victoria reported 374 new coronavirus infections on Wednesday. Pictured: A graph showing Victoria’s second wave of COVID-19 cases
NSW recorded 13 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, following an outbreak of COVID-19 cases at the Crossroads Hotel in Casula, the city’s south-west
According to NSW Health there were 90 active cases in the state as of Tuesday.
Sydney’s inner west, eastern suburbs and northern beaches have so far remained unscathed.
Despite the rising cases, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian on Tuesday said she wouldn’t yet follow Victoria’s lead by enforcing mask use in public, but urged people wear them when social distancing was impossible.
‘What NSW Health and myself are worried about most at this moment in time is what people are doing when they’re entering hospitality venues … you can’t wear a mask when you’re having a meal,’ Ms Berejiklian told 2GB radio.
‘That’s where the biggest risk is at the moment, indoor events.
Pictured: A map shows Sydney’s coronavirus hotspot sites
There are 26 cases linked to the Thai Rock restaurant at Wetherill Park (pictured)
‘The health advice to date has served NSW extremely well and it’s not for politicians to make this stuff up as we go.’
Three women have died of coronavirus in Victoria as the state continues to grapple with 3,147 active infections.
Premier Daniel Andrews confirmed the women aged in their 80s, 90s and 100s died overnight, bringing the number of deaths in the state to 42 and the national toll to 126.
One of the women was an aged care resident.
There are 174 people in hospital, 36 of whom are receiving intensive care.
‘It’s always challenging to analyse any one day’s results, you’d like to see numbers coming down,’ Mr Andrews told reporters on Tuesday.
Pictured: Two women and a child wear a face mask in Burwood, Sydney’s inner west on Monday
‘At the end of the day, we’re not seeing the doubling and doubling again.
‘So what that says to me, and I’m sure the chief health officer can speak to this in more detail, is that the sorts of measures we have put in place are having a direct impact.’
Victoria’s Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton said community transmission did appear to be heading down.
‘We have seen some stabilisation in some postcodes especially the postcodes where there have been restrictions for a long period of time,’ Professor Sutton told reporters.
‘That’s encouraging.
‘There are other postcodes where the restrictions for stage three have been in place for almost two weeks, but that’s not as long as the some of the other postcodes are destabilising, so I’m still hopeful that we can see some levelling off in decreasing numbers in those areas.’