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Dr Chant said on Wednesday the wards where the first worker had worked from June 24 to June 28 have now been quarantined to quell any potential spread.
The wards include the cardiology and a general abdominal surgery ward at Royal North Shore Hospital and Fairfield Hospital s rehabilitation ward.
All three of those hospital departments are no longer admitting any new patients.
Hundreds of Sydneysiders were earlier placed on red alert overnight and urged to get tested after three major shopping centres were added to the city s ballooning Covid exposure site list.
A nurse conducts a Covid-19 swab test at the Rushcutters Bay mobile testing clinic on June 25. Mass vaccination hubs in Wollongong, Macquarie Fields in Sydney s south west and the Sydney CBD will be set up to fast-track the state s fledgling rollout of Covid-19 jabs
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