New South Wales has recorded 35 new Covid cases on Saturday as the Bondi cluster grows to 261.
Premier Gladys Berejiklian confirmed the cases in a press conference on Saturday morning after 56,331 people were tested.
The 35 new cases are the highest number of infections recorded in a single day since the initial outbreak in 2020 but the premier and her Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant said the green shoots are there . We are relieved, the cases are not as bad as they could have been, Ms Berejiklian said.
Greater Sydney remains in lockdown until Friday but there are still fears it will be extended as sewage testing shows the virus is in south-west and western Sydney despite no known cases being recorded there.
“The green shoots are there,” she told reporters in Sydney on Saturday.
“The green shoots of the lockdown doing what we hoped it would are there.”
There has been concern the lockdown imposed on Greater Sydney, the Central Coast, Blue Mountains and Wollongong will be pushed beyond 9 July because many of the cases reported on Friday were not in isolation for the entirety of their infectious period.
Ms Berejiklian said a decision would come next week but would be dependent on how many new cases were in isolation during their infectious period. If we continue to see those trends, we have a greater chance of getting out of the lockdown in a timely way, she said.
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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.