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A man in his 70s has become the second person to die during Sydney s coronavirus outbreak as NSW recorded another 89 locally acquired cases of the disease.
The death of the man from Sydney s eastern suburbs on Monday comes after a woman in her 90s died on the weekend, taking the national tally to 912 since the pandemic began.
The 89 cases were diagnosed from more than 49,000 tests in the 24 hours to 8pm on Monday, taking the cluster which began in Bondi on June 16 to 767.
Some 27 were not in isolation for all or part of their infectious period.
The latest death takes the national tally to 912. A construction worker who tested positive to Covid-19 in Goulburn in the NSW southern tablelands, is reportedly among the new cases, sparking fears the Sydney outbreak has reached the regions beyond the city. NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian on Tuesday announced new testing requirements had been introduced for essential workers in an effort to stop them from seeding the virus outside Sydney. The key message is: Stay home, do not leave your home unless you absolutely have to, and if you do need to leave your home for essential work, if you live in the Fairfield Local Government area, please get tested every three days, she said.
A PERSON working on the new Goulburn Hospital has COVID-19.
NSW Health said the man who tested positive is an essential worker from southern Sydney and was infectious on the worksite on Friday (July 9).
He has been isolating since July 10, according to NSW chief health officer Dr Kerry Chant.
The worker is one of 89 new cases that have been confirmed in NSW in the past 24 hours to 8pm last night. Twenty-one of the 89 new cases have been infectious in the community, and one person, a man in his 70s from the eastern suburbs of Sydney, died due to COVID-19 yesterday.
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