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Residents of Sydney’s northern beaches are expected to start 2021 at home after NSW health authorities extended stay-at-home orders in the area.
However, a brief reprieve for small indoor gatherings on the northern beaches on New Year’s and New Year’s Eve was allowed.
NSW has recorded new cases of COVID outside of northern beaches, Premier Gladys Berejiklian revealed on Tuesday.
Monday at 8 p.m., three other cases were detected on more than 16,000 tests.
All three are related to the Northern Beaches cluster and were isolated.
Since then, several more cases of COVID have been detected in people outside the northern beaches.
One of the cases is someone from Wollongong who traveled to Sydney.
Health authorities are still working to determine the links between these cases.
“As we see the trends evolving as we hope, there are still too many worrying aspects … of not really being able to identify what we call the middlemen, these unrelated cases,” he said. Berejiklian said on Monday.
Restrictions for greater Sydney and regional NSW will remain largely unchanged around New York City, but outdoor gatherings in greater Sydney have been tightened to a maximum of 50 people, from 100.
On Monday evening, more locations were added to a growing list of locations outside of northern beaches that have been exposed to COVID.
New locations include a Woolworths and Coles in the eastern suburbs and a David Jones in the heart of the CBD.
All new sites were visited by someone on December 20 who has now tested positive for coronavirus.
Anyone who was there at the same time is considered casual contact and should watch for symptoms of the coronavirus.
If present, NSW Health said, they should seek testing immediately.
the locations and times, every December 20, are:
Woolworths Metro at Bondi beach between 5 p.m. and 6 p.m.
Coles Edgecliff between 7 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Kinokuniya Sydney on George Street between 3 p.m. and 3:45 p.m.
David Jones in Sydney CBD between 2:10 p.m. and 2:45 p.m.
Uniqlo in Sydney CBD between 4 p.m. and 4:15 p.m.
In addition, several bus and train routes have been caught by a person who has now tested positive for COVID-19.
As with the locations above, other passengers are considered casual contacts and should watch for symptoms.
the bus routes are:
333 – Bondi Junction Station at Bondi Beach, Campbell Pde, Stand C on December 21 between 7:30 p.m. and 7:45 p.m.
333 – Bondi Beach, Campbell Pde, Stand A at Bondi Junction Station between 9.45 a.m. and 10 a.m. on December 22.
333 – Bondi Beach, Campbell Pde, Stand A at Taylor Square, Oxford St, Stand A between 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. on December 23.
333 – Taylor Square, Oxford St, Stand D at Bondi Beach, Campbell Pde, Stand C between 10:40 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. on December 23.
the train routes are:
T1 North Shore Line – North Sydney to Wynyard between 1 p.m. and 1:09 p.m. on December 16.
T1 North Shore Line – Waitara to Wynyard between 8:16 a.m. and 9:05 a.m. and return between 4:52 p.m. and 5:31 p.m. on December 16.
T1 North Shore Line – Waitara to Wynard between 8:17 am and 9:01 am and return between 6:40 pm and 7:22 pm on December 17th.
Redfern to Bondi Junction via the town hall between 7 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on December 21.
Bondi Junction to Redfern via the town hall between 10:05 am and 10:35 am on December 22.
For the complete list of places on alert, Click here.