“We are concerned in transmission events occurring outside the northern beaches because residents in those areas are not subject to the same lockdown provisions,” Dr Chant said.
She highlighted The Rose of Australia, a pub in Erskineville in Sydney’s inner west, where a positive case visited on December 15 while infectious and another diner tested positive on Sunday.
A record number of COVID-19 tests were conducted in NSW on Monday.
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“We believe there has been transmission from the first person to the new case at the venue, as they were both diners there at the same time, she said. The second case was part of a work dinner and all attendees at that dinner are being tested, but we’re also investigating how the contact between the first and second person occurred.”