A popular coffee shop along with a busy inner-city Westpac and a beach-side shopping centre have been added to Sydney’s ever-growing list of Covid exposure sites.
The number of sites exposed to the virus across the city has swelled to more than 300.
Earlier on Monday, seven new venues were added to the list, including a Domino’s Pizza store, a popular pub and another Coffee shop.
The state’s health department also flagged a petrol station, a Woolworths, a Bunnings hardware store and a Coles Express.
The venues are spread throughout Sydney from the outer western suburbs to the Inner West and the Covid-ravaged east.
It comes as NSW recorded 18 new locally-acquired infections on Monday, bringing the spiralling Bondi cluster 130 cases on the second day Greater Sydney’s two-week lockdown.
Domino’s Pizza (pictured) at Merrylands in Sydney’s west, became the latest venue added to the list with a Covid-positive case visiting the store on Monday June 21 between 6.20pm – 6.50pm
Mounted Police on patrol at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Monday, June 28, 2021. More than five million people in Greater Sydney and its surrounds have gone into a 14-day lockdown
There are now hundreds of venues across Sydney and the rest of the state that have been added to the ever-expanding list since June 16 – when a limo driver ferrying international flight crew began patient zero of the highly contagious Delta strain.
Domino’s Pizza at Merrylands in Sydney’s west, became the latest venue added to the list with a Covid-positive case visiting the store on Monday June 21 between 6.20pm – 6.50pm.
A popular watering hole in Macquarie Fields, the Glenquarie Hotel, was also issued an alert for several days.
Anyone who was at the southwest Sydney venue on Tuesday June 22 between 5pm – 11.30pm, Wednesday June 23 between 5pm – 11.30pm and Thursday June 24 between 5pm – 11.30pm, is considered a close contact.
It’s the same story for the Black and Gold Espresso cafe at Rosebery in Sydney’s east, where an infected person visited on Friday June 25 between 10.50am – 11.20am.
Anyone who attended any of these venues during the listed times must immediately get tested and self-isolate for 14 days regardless of the result.
Anyone who visited the Black and Gold Espresso cafe at Rosebery in Sydney’s east (pictured) on Friday June 25 between 10.50am – 11.20am must self-isolate for 14 days and immediately and get tested
Residents at Sydney’s Bondi Beach, the epicenter of Sydney’s outbreak, are pictured getting their essential exercise
NSW Health also issued ‘casual contact’ alerts for four other venues.
A Shell Coles Express petrol station at Pagewood in Sydney’s south was potentiallly exposed on Wednesday June 23 between 11am – 11.30am.
Another Coles Express at Alexandria in Sydney’s Inner West was declared an exposure site with anyone who attended the venue on Saturday June 26 between 10am – 10.15am urged to self isolate.
A Woolworths at the Glenquarie Town Centre at Macquarie Fields was also added the list, after being visited on Friday June 25 between 12pm – 4.30pm by a close contact of a Covid patient.
Bunnings Eastgardens in Hillsdale, Sydney’s east was the final venue flagged for Friday June 25 between 4pm – 4.30pm.
NSW Health said anyone who attended the these venues at the listed times is considered a casual contact and must immediately get tested and self-isolate until a negative result is received.
Sydney’s CBD is a virtual ghost town after workers were ordered to work from home once again after infections numbers rose on the weekend
Sydney, Wollongong, the Blue Mountains, Shellharbour and the Central Coast are two days in to a 14-day lockdown.
Residents or anyone who has worked in Sydney in the last two weeks are only allowed to leave home to shop for food or other essential goods and services; to give medical care or compassionate needs, exercise outdoors with a maximum of ten people, or essential work or education.
Masks must be worn at all indoor public venues, while hospitality and pubs are only permitted to stay open to serve takeaway.
Households will not be allowed to have any visitors, although there are exceptions for intimate partners that don’t live with each other who are permitted to visit each other’s homes.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said workers and students can only leave the house if they are unable to get educated or work from home.
Ms Berejiklian said about six of the state’s new cases were in isolation for their entire infectious period, while more were isolated for part of the same period.
Health workers conduct COVID-19 tests at the St. Vincents Hospital drive-through testing clinic at Bondi Beach in Sydney June 27, 2021
A popular watering hole in Macquarie Fields, the Glenquarie Hotel (pictured), was also issued an alert for several days
‘Unfortunately some were active in the community. As Dr Kerry Chant has told us already, the cases we are seeing today are a reflection of what may have occurred in the previous week and obviously there is a lag time,’ she told reporters on Monday.
Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant said officials will need to wait ‘at least another five days’ to reap the benefits of lockdown.
‘It is important the community understands that the numbers are not expected to decline for another five days,’ she said.
Meanwhile, several other states are also dealing with their own outbreaks with Western Australia introducing restrictions to the Perth and Peel region after a woman who travelled east contracted the highly contagious Delta strain.
Queensland and the Northern Territory are also battling two separate clusters prompting both governments to impose tougher Covid measures including mask mandates and caps on gatherings.