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Coffs Harbour and Newcastle on alert as NSW Health updates list of COVID exposure sites after 98 cases
A bottle shop in Coffs Harbour, 500km north of Sydney, and a Coles Express in Newcastle are among the newly identified COVID-hit venues, causing fears the virus will spread beyond the Harbour City.
Zoe ZaczekDigital Reporter
July 20, 2021 - 7:50AM
New South Wales’ list of coronavirus exposure sites has swelled overnight to include a bottle shop more than five hours north of Sydney and a Coles Express in Newcastle.
Contact tracers named Hoey Moey Bottle shop in Coffs Harbour, on the north coast of NSW, as a close contact venue on Thursday July 15 from 3.55pm to 4.10pm after an infected person from Sydney travelled into the area.
COVID-19 update: Gladys Berejiklian announces 78 local cases in New South Wales
Premier Gladys Berejiklian said 27 of the new cases were in the community while infectious as the state s health boss flagged an emerging risk in Sydney.
Zoe ZaczekDigital Reporter
July 20, 2021 - 11:00AM
New South Wales has recorded 78 new coronavirus cases, including 27 infectious in the community, as health authorities flag an emerging risk .
Premier Gladys Berejiklian said there is some “good news” as additional COVID infections have been picked up through the mandatory testing of asymptomatic essential workers in south-west Sydney.
The premier also asked residents in the Canterbury-Bankstown LGA, Hurstville and Kogarah areas to come forward for testing as she again reiterated the number of cases infectious in the community needs to drop to end the lockdown.
NSW s Covid-19 outbreak has grown by another 89 locally-acquired cases
Man in his 70s from Sydney s eastern suburbs has also died from the virus
Workers in Fairfield must get tested every three days if leaving home for work
But in glimmer of hope outbreak slowing 14 cases unlinked to known cases
By comparison, there were 48 mystery coronavirus infections on Monday