An apartment block in Bondi Junction has been locked down under armed guard after eight residents across five different units tested positive to Covid-19.
Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant said on Monday that the source of the infections in the eastern suburbs building have been identified, and some who tested positive have been evacuated.
Health authorities are scrambling to ensure the virus does not spread throughout the block of 29 units on Botany Street and infect healthy residents.
One mum who lives in the building told community members in a local Facebook group that they were given strict orders not to leave home.
Police are seeking public assistance to locate a teenage girl missing from Sydney's south. Jiavanti Juliette Betham-Prasad, aged 12, was last seen at a.
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Two locally acquired COVID-19 cases have emerged in Sydney, triggering a change in restrictions to mitigate the spread of the virus.
On Wednesday, NSW Health announced a man in his 50s tested positive. He has not recently travelled overseas, does not work in a hotel quarantine, border or health role, and has not recently travelled interstate. His wife has since also tested positive to the virus.
On Thursday morning, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian announced new restrictions for Greater Sydney, which she says will last three days.
NSW Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant has said that genome testing in the past 24 hours has allowed them to understand more about where and how this man may have picked up the virus.