Sydney on alert as a popular burger restaurant is forced to shut along with a busy Woolworths and a pizza place after they were visited by infected customers as coronavirus outbreak fears grow
- A pizza restaurant in Sydney's south-west has been forced to closed for cleaning
- A customer infected with COVID-19 dined at Mancini's Original Woodfired Pizza
- NSW Health are investigating the potential new cluster that could be forming
- Woolworths in Bowral , 110km southwest of Sydney, was also closed for cleaning
- A staff member at store tested positive for coronavirus after working on Sunday
- Milky Lane in Parramatta also had a customer test positive for the deadly virus
A popular burger joint, a pizza restaurant and a Woolworths store in New South Wales have been forced to temporarily close after being hit with coronavirus cases.
Store owners of Milky Lane in Parramatta were contacted by NSW Health on Tuesday after a customer tested positive for the illness.
The customer visited the store on Saturday. All customers at the store on that day have been notified, the company said on Facebook.
The store was closed for cleaning and all staff have been tested for the virus.
It comes as Mancini's Original Woodfired Pizza in Belfield, in Sydney's south-west, was forced to close for three days for cleaning after an infected man dined at the restaurant on Friday.
NSW Health are now investigating the potential new cluster that could be forming and has been contacting customers who were at the venue on the same day.
A Woolworths store in Bowral in the NSW Southern Highlands, 110km southwest of Sydney, has also been forced to close for cleaning after a staff member tested positive to COVID-19.
The store said the employee worked on Sunday but did not show any symptoms when they were at work.
Any customers who shopped at the store on the day have been urged to make contact with NSW Health should they feel unwell.
The new cases come as fears grow of a new wave seeping into NSW from Victoria, which has been battling a fresh outbreak. The state now has 1,800 active coronavirus cases.
NSW Health are investigating a potential new cluster after a coronavirus-positive man spent an hour at Mancini's Original Woodfired Pizza in Belfield, in Sydney's southwest, on Friday
A Woolworths store in Bowral in the NSW Southern Highlands, 110km southwest of Sydney, has been forced to close for cleaning after a staff member tested positive to COVID-19
NSW has ramped up its testing after an outbreak at the Crossroads Hotel in Casula (pictured: A nurse administering COVID-19 tests to people in their cars)
Last week it was revealed a new cluster was forming at a Sydney pub after a 30-year-old woman and a man in his 50s were found to have contracted COVID-19 after visiting the Crossroads Hotel in Casula.
Cases associated with the hotel reached 30 on Tuesday night.
However, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said she had no plans to put Sydney into lockdown again despite worrying clusters developing.
'Until we have a cure, we have to live with it. We cannot shut down every time we have a cluster of cases,' Ms Berejiklian told A Current Affair.
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'We cannot keep shutting down, reopening, shutting down and reopening. That is not a good way for us to manage the pandemic because it creates chaos for people.
'It creates chaos for businesses who are employing people and it makes us lose confidence in the future.'
But Ms Berejiklian announced a tightening of restrictions in response to the Casula outbreak with a limit of 300 people at pubs and hotels - and group bookings to be capped at 10 people.
It will be mandatory for pubs and hotels to download and register the COVID-19 safe plan and take down contact details of all patrons.
Pictured: The Sydney venues feared to be at the centre of COVID-19 outbreaks
Venues with a capacity of more than 250 people will be required to have a full-time marshal on site to enforce COVID-19 safety guidelines.
The changes don't apply to clubs, restaurants or The Star casino and will come into effect from 12.01am on Friday.
Ms Berejiklian said it was 'unrealistic' to assume that there would be zero COVID-19 cases in the state.
'I think what we are going to have to accept during the pandemic is that we are always going to have cases. We are always going to have outbreaks,' Ms Berejiklian acknowledged.
'I don't ever want to be in a situation again where we have to lockdown NSW. We've done that, we did it well, we came together and now what we need to do is keep working together.
Crossroads Hotel in Casula, in the city's south-west, was forced to shut after two revellers tested positive to coronavirus
Pictured: The Crossroads Hotel in Casula, in Sydney's south-west
'Take the health advice, get tested, stay home… keep everybody safe.'
Although Ms Berejiklian made it clear she has no intention of shutting down NSW for a second time, she warned that everyone would need to make 'sacrifices'.
'I've not hugged my parents for months. That is a decision I have taken because I'm extra careful,' she said.
'All of us have to make sacrifices, all of us have to take actions to protect the wider community
'But we also need to accept that children need to be educated, people have to go to work… we cannot be in lockdown forever and no community could be.'
Medical workers are seen giving coronavirus tests in Sydney's Bondi on Tuesday (pictured) amid fears the Melbourne outbreak may spread to NSW
Victoria is currently dealing with a second wave of coronavirus cases by locking down certain areas in Melbourne and Mitchell Shire
Meanwhile, South Australia will delay its border opening with NSW, which was set down for July 20.
In Victoria, Premier Daniel Andrews on Tuesday said it was too early to decide on further restrictions, noting metropolitan Melbourne and Mitchell Shire are just one week into a six-week lockdown.
He also confirmed Victoria's last returned overseas travellers would finish hotel quarantine by Thursday.
International flights will continue to be diverted away from Melbourne indefinitely, meaning the state's botched hotel quarantine program will stay suspended.
