A busy Bondi Junction nail salon as well as a Chemist Warehouse and ANZ bank branch, both in Sydney’s CBD, have been added to the city’s growing Covid exposure list.
It comes as a number of major Sydney bus routes and an entire office building were already added on Monday afternoon.
Health authorities fear those who attended the Fresh Nails salon at Westfield Bondi Junction on Friday June 18 from 9:30am – 7pm may have been exposed to the virus after it was visited by a positive Covid case.
NSW Health said anyone who attended the salon during the specified times is considered a close contact must immediately get tested and self isolate for 14 days regardless of the result.
Late-night alerts were also issued for Chemist Warehouse, at 383 George St Sydney, on Tuesday June 15 from 1:45pm – 2:15pm, and at the ANZ Branch on the Corner of York and Market Street on Wednesday June 16 from 8:30am – 4:30pm.
Anyone who visited these venues must immediately get tested and self isolate until they receive a negative result.
NSW health authorities issued an alert on Monday for passengers who travelled on eight bus routes which travelled around the city’s CBD, northwest, and western suburbs.
Earlier on Monday state health authorities issued an alert for passengers who travelled on eight bus routes which travelled around the city’s CBD, northwest, and western suburbs.
A positive case travelled on the 6I4X bus route from Baulkham Hills to Sydney, from Gooden Drive to Stand J, Wynyard Station, at York Street, on June 15, between 8.40am – to 9.23am.
The person then returned to Baulkham Hills on the same bus route later that day, boarding from Clarence Street at 5.44pm and arriving at Gooden Drive at 6.29pm.
Anyone who travelled on the two 614X bus routes are considered close contacts and must immediately contact NSW Health, get tested, and isolate for 14 days, regardless of their result.
Casual contacts of the person were also listed as travelling on the Northmead to Parramatta 600 bus route on the mornings of Wednesday June 9 and Thursday, June 10; the Parramatta to Winston Hills 600 bus on Thursday June 10; Haymarket to Newtown 428 buses on Tuesday June 15.
Anyone who travelled on the above bus routes must immediately get tested and self-isolate until a negative result is received.
Those who were at the Ashfield office block, 2-4 Holden Street, on Friday June 18 between 6pm–7.30pm, should monitor for symptoms and, if they appear, self-isolate until a negative result is received.
Those who were at the Ashfield office block, 2-4 Holden Street, on Friday June 18 between 6pm–7.30pm, should monitor for symptoms
New South Wales has recorded two new local cases of Covid-19 overnight as the number of sites exposed to the virus across the state ballooned to 40.
Health officials in NSW confirmed the community infections following the 8pm cut-off on Sunday evening, along with five cases in hotel quarantine.
On Monday Premier Gladys Berejiklian warned masks were likely to stay mandatory in affected parts of Sydney until Thursday.
The premier said that the transmission in Sydney’s Bondi cluster had been ‘fleeting’ and that people leaving their homes should assume anyone in close proximity to them has the virus.
There are now 11 cases associated with the Bondi cluster. NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian warned masks were likely to stay mandatory in affected parts of Sydney until Thursday
There are now 11 cases associated with the cluster.
One of the local cases is a woman in her 50s from Sydney’s northern suburbs who is a close contact of a previously reported case and in isolation.
The other is a man in his 30s – who is also self-isolating – from the eastern suburbs.
The two infections will be included in Tuesday’s figures and bring the size of the state’s latest Covid-19 cluster to 15 cases.
Ms Berejiklian tightened restrictions in NSW last weekend when she enforced mask use on public transport and inside public spaces in Randwick, Bayside, Canada Bay, Inner West, City of Sydney, Waverley and Woollahra.
She said the ‘next few days are critical’ and urged residents ‘not to be complacent’.
‘If cases continue to emerge, we will need to go further,’ the Premier said.