Sydney school is closed for deep cleaning after a young student tests positive to coronavirus

A western Sydney primary school has been forced to close after a student tested positive to COVID-19.

All Bonnyrigg Heights Primary School students in Sydney’s west will learn from home on Monday as the school helps NSW Health to trace the close contacts of the student and cleaning is carried out.

All staff and students are asked to self-isolate in the meantime.

Last week, a student at the nearby Bonnyrigg High School tested positive to the virus and was closed before reopening the day after on August 5.

A western Sydney primary school has been forced to close after a student tested positive to COVID-19 Pictured: File image of students walking to school in Sydney in May 

The alert issued overnight on Sunday comes after a church on Sydney’s upper north shore was closed after people attending two masses and a prayer group were potentially exposed to COVID-19.

St Agatha’s Catholic Church in Pennant Hills is undergoing deep cleaning after a parishioner tested positive to the virus.

NSW Health is working to trace people at the prayer group on August 3 between 7pm and 8pm, with anyone in attendance advised to isolate until contacted.

Anyone who attended 6.30am masses on August 5 and 6 have also been told to be alert for symptoms.

NSW Health also advised anyone who visited PharmaSave Pharmacy in Cherrybrook, in Appletree Shopping Centre from 4pm to 7pm on August 6 to be alert for symptoms after an employee tested positive.

The worker, who wore a mask during their shift, was one of 10 new COVID-19 cases recorded on Sunday, with just one in hotel quarantine and two under investigation.

Bonnyrigg Heights Primary School students in Sydney’s west will learn from home on Monday while a deep clean is carried out

The pharmacy in Sydney’s northwest will undergo cleaning and will be closed temporarily.

NSW Health has also advised staff who had contact with a Hornsby Hospital healthcare employee to self-isolate for 14 days after the staffer worked in the emergency department on August 6 from 11am to midnight while infectious.

The worker wore a mask at all times while in contact with patients and was asymptomatic at the time but became unwell after their shift.

Those who attended the hospital on August 6 are being chased up.

An infected customer is understood to have visited Big W and Bonnyrigg Fruit at the Bonnyrigg Plaza Shopping Centre (pictured) on August 4

NSW Health’s Dr Jeremy McAnulty urged people to get tested, practice social distancing and wear a mask if social distancing is not possible.

He added that it was ‘extremely important’ everyone played their part in preventing the disease.

Meanwhile, a second student at Tangara School for Girls in Cherrybrook has come down with COVID-19, with all students from years seven to 12 sent into two weeks of self-isolation. The secondary campus will remain closed until August 21.

NSW Health also warned shoppers who attended Bunnings in Campbelltown in Sydney’s southwest on August 4, 5 and 6 to be alert for COVID-19 symptoms after an employee tested positive. The worker wore a mask during the shifts. 

An urgent warning was on Saturday issued to customers at a western Sydney shopping centre after a shopper tested positive to COVID-19. 

The customer is understood to have visited Big W and Bonnyrigg Fruit at the Bonnyrigg Plaza Shopping Centre on August 4. 

The Bonnyrigg Plaza Shopping Centre was temporarily closed as it underwent deep cleaning (pictured, Broadway Shopping centre team, in Sydney, wearing face masks)

No close contact to the COVID-19 positive customer has been confirmed. 

The centre was temporarily closed as it underwent deep cleaning.  

‘The health and safety of our customers, retailers and community remains our highest priority,’ centre management said on Friday.

‘As per our COVID-safe plan, we will complete a thorough deep clean throughout the centre tonight and will reopen for trade tomorrow at 9.00am.’  

Jambo Jambo African Restaurant, in Glebe, and Fitness First, in St Leonards, are just some of the other places that were placed on high alert.

The spread of COVID-19 in NSW has essentially confined residents to their own state after Queensland’s new border restrictions came into effect early on Saturday.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has followed the lead of her counterparts in WA, SA, and Tasmania in barring all NSW residents as community transmission continues in the state.

NSW VENUES ON HIGH ALERT 

Self-isolate and get tested immediately If you have been to any of these locations during the time and date indicated you should: 

 Glebe: Jambo Jambo African Restaurant 7pm to 10:30pm on Friday 31 July 2020

Hamilton: Bennett Hotel 5:30pm to 10pm on Friday 31 July

Hamilton: Sydney Junction Hotel 11pm on Saturday 1 August to 1:15am on Sunday 2 August

Jesmond: Hotel Jesmond 7pm to 9pm on Wednesday 29 July

Lambton: Lambton Park Hotel 8pm to 9pm on Thursday 30 July

Mount Pritchard: Mounties, 101 Meadows Road 12:01am to 2:30am on Monday 20 July 

And 12:15pm to 5:30pm on Tuesday 21 July, 8pm to midnight on Tuesday 21 July, Midnight to 12:30am on Wednesday 22 July, 7pm to midnight on Wednesday 22 July, Midnight to 3am on Thursday 23 July, 7pm to midnight on Thursday 23 July, Midnight to 3am on Friday 24 July, 11am to 3:30pm on Friday 24 July, 7pm to midnight on Friday 24 July, Midnight to 3am on Saturday 25 July, 4pm to 7pm on Sunday 26 July

(Times and dates updated on 6 August)

New Lambton: Bar 88 – Wests New Lambton 5pm to 7:15pm on Sunday 2 August

Newcastle: Hamilton to Adamstown Number 26 bus 8:20am on Monday 3 August

Potts Point: The Apollo Wednesday 22 July to Sunday 26 July

(The period has been extended by two days to include Wednesday 22 July and Sunday 26 July.)

St Leonards: Fitness First (excludes patrons who only attended booked fitness classes or only went to the pool) 9am to 10:30am on Monday 27 July

Surry Hills: Hotel Harry (Harpoon Harry) 2:15pm to 11pm on Sunday 26 July

If you were at this venue for two hours or more between 2:15pm and 11pm, you must self-isolate and get tested and stay isolated for a full 14 days, even if the test is negative. If symptoms develop, get tested again.

Sydney: Burrow Bar 9:45pm to midnight on Saturday, 1 August

If you were at this venue for two hours or more between 9:45pm and midnight, you must self-isolate and get tested and stay isolated until Saturday 15 August, even if the test is negative. If symptoms develop, get tested again.

(Advice updated 7 August)

Wallsend: Wallsend Diggers 9pm to 11pm on Wednesday 29 July

And 9pm to 11pm on Thursday 30 July

Source: NSW Health 

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