COVID-19 venues: Health alert for Greenacre car wash, Priceline Dapto and Woolworths Orange
The worrying new venues of concern were named as coronavirus spreads beyond the Harbour City, with health authorities deciding to plunge Orange into lockdown overnight.
Zoe ZaczekDigital Reporter
July 21, 2021 - 8:10AM
NSW Health have updated their coronavirus exposure sites list again to include a car wash all day over six days, a Priceline Pharmacy in Wollongong and to alter the advice for a COVID-hit bottle shop in Coffs Harbour.
There are now concerns over Greater Sydney’s coronavirus outbreak has spread to regional NSW with Orange, Blayney and Cabonne plunged into lockdown overnight.
Coffs Harbour and Newcastle on alert as NSW Health updates list of COVID exposure sites after 98 cases
A bottle shop in Coffs Harbour, 500km north of Sydney, and a Coles Express in Newcastle are among the newly identified COVID-hit venues, causing fears the virus will spread beyond the Harbour City.
Zoe ZaczekDigital Reporter
July 20, 2021 - 7:50AM
New South Wales’ list of coronavirus exposure sites has swelled overnight to include a bottle shop more than five hours north of Sydney and a Coles Express in Newcastle.
Contact tracers named Hoey Moey Bottle shop in Coffs Harbour, on the north coast of NSW, as a close contact venue on Thursday July 15 from 3.55pm to 4.10pm after an infected person from Sydney travelled into the area.
COVID-19 update: Gladys Berejiklian announces 78 local cases in New South Wales
Premier Gladys Berejiklian said 27 of the new cases were in the community while infectious as the state s health boss flagged an emerging risk in Sydney.
Zoe ZaczekDigital Reporter
July 20, 2021 - 11:00AM
New South Wales has recorded 78 new coronavirus cases, including 27 infectious in the community, as health authorities flag an emerging risk .
Premier Gladys Berejiklian said there is some “good news” as additional COVID infections have been picked up through the mandatory testing of asymptomatic essential workers in south-west Sydney.
The premier also asked residents in the Canterbury-Bankstown LGA, Hurstville and Kogarah areas to come forward for testing as she again reiterated the number of cases infectious in the community needs to drop to end the lockdown.
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A Wallsend service station is the second COVID-19 exposure site to be declared in the Hunter, following Sydney’s recent outbreak.
Anyone who attended the westbound Coles Express service station at 14 Thomas Street in Wallsend between 2.45pm and 3pm on Saturday 17 July is a casual contact who must immediately get tested and self-isolate until a negative result is received.
The service station has been deep cleaned and is now back open for business.
It’s believed two removalists, who were moving a family from Sydney to Newcastle and stopped off at the petrol station, have now both tested positive to coronavirus.