Health authorities want Auburn, Berala, Greystanes and Lidcombe residents in Sydney's west to seek immediate testing if they display the mildest of symptoms. Meanwhile, the NSW Premier is preparing to relax the northern beaches restrictions.
Staff at a private hospital will spend the New Year in self-isolation after the maternity ward was visited by a confirmed coronavirus case.
The case visited the obstetrics unit at the Kareena Private Hospital in Caringbah in Sydney s south on December 29.
As a result, a hospital spokesperson said 12 people will have to undergo 14 days of self-isolation while areas of the hospital are deep cleaned.
A source told Daily Mail Australia the infected person was a dentist who had been visiting his wife and newborn at the hospital.
An infected person had visited the obstetrics unit at the Kareena Private Hospital in Caringbah, in Sydney s south, on December 29
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Sydneysiders trying to escape the city for the holidays faced delays at choke points up and down the NSW coast on Boxing Day, with motorists urged to allow extra travel time as traffic slowed on major highways.
The ban on overseas travel and interstate border closures due to the northern beaches COVID-19 outbreak has meant NSW residents are predicted to converge on regional destinations in record numbers this summer.
Heavy traffic on the M1 Pacific Motorway near Mount Colah on Boxing Day afternoon.
Credit:Stephen Saphore
Live Traffic NSW reported busy southbound holiday traffic on the Princes Highway, south of Sydney, from Berry to Meroo Meadow, and from Yallah to Albion Park, shortly after lunchtime on Saturday.
Thousands of revellers have hit the streets of Sydney to celebrate Christmas Eve despite Covid warnings
Partygoers were in high spirits as they attended the Mercantile Hotel in The Rocks before the sun went down
They were seen spilling out onto the streets after a night of partying in the early hours of Friday morning
The celebrations came just hours after NSW Health added a slew of new venues to its public health alert list