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Two Sydney Hospitals Now On Alert For COVID-19 [Headlines]
A fully vaccinated staff member at Westmead Hospital is now isolating after being picked up as having the virus during a routine screening.
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Two Sydney hospitals are now on alert for COVID-19.
A fully vaccinated staff member at Westmead Hospital is now isolating after being picked up as having the virus during a routine screening.
Liverpool Hospital’s operating theatres are being deep cleaned after a pregnant woman undergoing a caesarean section tested positive.
Health authorities have frantically extended the opening hours of several testing sites in the Covid-ravaged hotspot of southwest Sydney after thousands of residents were forced to queue for up to eight hours to get swabbed.
Residents in the Fairfield local government area who work outside the region must now get tested every three days in a desperate effort to curb the city s Covid-19 horror outbreak.
To support the new testing scheme a grace period will allow workers to leave the area without a test until Saturday, with opening hours of testing clinics to be extended in response to the overwhelming demand.
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New South Wales recorded 97 Covid-19 cases overnight as lockdown extended
Only 24 of the infections out in community for entire time they were contagious
The strict stay-at-home lockdown has been extended until 11.59pm on July 30
Ms Berejiklian said decision hurt but health advice gave her no other option
NSW Health said another 140 suburbs across city were of significant concern