Hundreds of potentially Covid-infected Sydney residents were left to wander the streets for four days after an embarrassing contact tracing error,.
NSW Health issued an alert for the Crossroads Hotel in Casula, southwest Sydney - infamous for being the epicentre of an outbreak with 65 infections in just ten days last year.
Customers who were there on Wednesday evening were told to get tested immediately and isolate for 14 days regardless of their result.
However, the alert was actually meant for the Crossways Hotel on Liverpool Road in Strathfield South - 25km away - at 7pm to 10.30pm on the same day.
NSW Health issued its first ever transmission venues of concern list on Sunday
Sites include a Bondi cafe, a hair salon, a Westfield, seafood wholesaler, and pub
Anyone who visited four of the venues at the listed times are close contacts
They must immediately get tested and isolate for 14 days regardless of result
Westfield attendees must get tested - only isolate if visited a listed exposure site
Published June 27, 2021
NSW Health incorrectly listed Crossroads Hotel (the centre of a cluster in 2020) as an exposure site instead of Crossways Hotel yesterday. The department has now issued a statement in response to the mixup.
NSW Health previously listed Crossroads Hotel, Casula as a COVID-19 exposure site, advising it as a venue of concern that had been visited by a confirm COVID-19 case. The correct venue of concern is actually the similarly named Crossways Hotel, in Strathfield.
“Please note that anyone who attended Crossroads Hotel in Casula is not a close contact,” the statement read.
Some people are angry at the states incompetence, and expressed that “now is not the time to be making mistakes like this.”
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