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Contact tracers named fresh coronavirus exposure sites in New South Wales overnight, including a pub in Tamworth and a restaurant in Newcastle, after 262 new local cases.
A pub and café in Tamworth, along with a restaurant in Newcastle, are on COVID-alert for six full days as Greater Sydney’s Delta outbreak causes chaos across the state.
NSW Health updated their list of coronavirus exposure sites overnight after 262 new cases, including at least 46 infectious in the community, were recorded on Sunday.
The slight drop in daily figures comes after residents in the Hunter and Upper Hunter regions were ordered to lock down last week due to community transmission of the virus in the Newcastle area.
Authorities then plunged Armidale, almost six hours north of Sydney, into a snap lockdown on Saturday following positive cases.
Contact tracers have now named venues exposed to the virus in Tamworth, about five hours north of Sydney, causing fears the COVID outbreak could rip through the state.
Authorities listed Habesha Ethiopian Restaurant in The Junction, Newcastle, as a close contact venue from Sunday August 1 to Thursday August 5.
CLOSE CONTACT
Anyone who attended the following venues at the time and date listed is a close contact and must get tested and isolate for 14 days, regardless of the result:
- Erskine Park – Wok Crazy, 24/184 Swallow Drive: Monday August 2, 6:10pm to 6:45pm
- St Marys – Commbank, 106 Queen Street: Thursday August 5, 5:40pm to 5:50pm
- Cooks Hill – Mr Rice Takeaway, 133 Darby Street: Wednesday August 4, 3pm to 3:20pm
- The Junction – Habesha Ethiopian Restaurant, 50 Glebe Road: Saturday July 31 all day, Sunday August 1 all day, Monday August 2 all day, Tuesday August 3 all day, Wednesday August 4 all day, Thursday August 5 all day
- Tamworth – Inland Café, 407 Peel Street: Thursday August 5, 9:15am to 10am
- Tamworth – Tudor Hotel, 327 Peel Street: Thursday August 5, 11am to 11:40am
CASUAL CONTACTS
NSW Health also named more than 100 casual contact venues on Sunday.
The latest COVID-hit venues, named late on Sunday night, are in:
- Ashfield
- Blacktown
- Cabramatta
- Campsie
- Chullora
- Clempton Park
- Colebee
- Cooks Hill
- Erskine Park
- Fairfield Heights
- Gosford
- Greenacre
- Greystanes
- Guildford
- Haberfield
- Hillvue
- Kellyville
- Kogarah
- Lake Haven
- Lakemba
- Lidcombe
- Maroubra
- Marrickville
- Marsden Park
- Mayfield
- Medowie
- Minchinbury
- Mount Druitt
- Narellan
- Narrabeen
- Penrith
- Prospect
- Punchbowl
- Quakers Hill
- Raymond Terrace
- Rosebery
- Smithfield
- St Clair
- St Marys
- Surry Hills
- Tamworth
- The Junction
- Toongabbie
- Waterloo
- Wentworth Falls
- Wentworthville
- Wetherill Park
- Williamtown
The full list of locations, including close and casual contact venues, public transport route or changes to previously reported venues can be found here.
If you were at a casual contact venue at the time and date listed on the website, immediately get tested and isolate until you get a negative result, even if you have had a test in recent days.
Sydneysiders are encouraged to check the NSW Government website often, as the list of venues of concern are regularly updated by contact tracers as investigations continue.
The new cases on Sunday take the state’s latest outbreak to 5,169.
The outbreak emerged on June 16 after a Bondi limo driver who transports international aircrew contracted the virus.
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