Selfless moment a restaurant hands out dozens of free pizzas to people waiting in line at Covid drive-thru testing
- Sydney pizza shop gives free pizzas to people getting a drive-thru Covid test
- Act of kindness as people are subjected to long wait times at Covid test clinics
- Site Pizza bar has venues in Little Bay and Maroubra on
A Sydney pizza shop has given away dozens of free pizzas to people waiting in line at a drive-thru Covid testing site.
The tasty surprise was delivered by Site Pizza Bar who handed out the free pizzas to everyone waiting to be tested at Chifley Park drive-thru clinic on Tuesday afternoon.
The heartwarming gesture was announced via the business' Facebook page.
'To all that are being patient and are waiting to be tested at Chifley Park we are on our way to say thank you with some pizza to share' the post read.
The pizza bar surprised people waiting in line for a covid test by announcing the giveaway over Facebook
Pictured: a worker is busily preparing multiple pizzas ready to be delivered to people waiting in line at a Covid drive-thru testing clinic
In images shared to the Facebook post, mask-clad workers are seen frantically preparing the pizzas for delivery while they comply with the latest covid restrictions.
The act of kindness comes as people are subjected to long wait times across Sydney as the demand for covid testing increases, with active cases in New South Wales growing from 10 to 13 overnight.
Site pizza bar has venues in both Little Bay and Maroubra.
New South Wales has recorded 13 cases of Covid-19 community transmission overnight but Premier Gladys Berejiklian has stopped short of sending Sydney into a hard lockdown.
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Ms Berejiklian said health officials had found 10 local cases from 44,000 tests in the 24 hours to 8pm on Tuesday night - seven of which had already been announced.
Since that cut-off, she said another 13 cases were found in the community, with eight attending the same party at West Hoxton in Sydney's far-west.
Contact tracers are investigating four cases with no known source, although all are in close proximity to a cluster in the city's east which has now reached 31 cases.
For the next week from 4pm on Wednesday, household gatherings will be limited to five visitors and masks will be compulsory in all all indoor venues, including workplaces and gym classes.
The images which were shared to Facebook were a way to thank the community for their patience during long wait times for Covid testing
Drinking while standing in pubs and bars will also be banned and those who live and work in seven hotspot council areas will not be allowed to leave metropolitan Sydney unless they have an essential reason.
Those council areas are the City of Sydney, Waverley, Woollahra, Bayside, Canada Bay, Inner West and Randwick - home to about 782,000 residents.
The tightened rules - which also include a 50 per cent capacity restriction for outdoor seated events - will apply to Sydney, the Blue Mountains and Central Coast and Shellharbour regions.
Ms Berejiklian said the growth of 'unlinked cases' in the state meant she needed to take proportionate action to stop the highly-contagious Delta variant from spreading.
