Terrifying Sydney Covid exposure list is revealed spanning FIVE pages with 21 new venues, 12 bus routes and 17 trains on alert - so do you need to isolate?
- A huge number of Covid exposure sites were added to the rapidly list Monday
- The venues and public transport routes span right across the Covid-hit city
- NSW recorded 112 new locally acquired cases with total infections now at 678
A huge new list of Sydney venues exposed to Covid has been revealed, including two Kmarts, Coles, Woolworths and 29 public transport routes.
The venues, train and bus lines stretch right across the city from the Covid-ravaged southwest to the eastern suburbs, inner west and inner city.
It comes as NSW recorded 112 new locally acquired cases on Monday, bringing the total number of infections since Sydney's latest outbreak began on June 16 to 678.
The five page list stokes fears that millions are unlikely to be released from lockdown on Friday, or even for many more weeks, with such high numbers of infected people having moved throughout the city.
Gladys Berejiklian has already warned that it is nearly 'impossible' the city will be released from restrictions at the end of this week.
A huge new list of Sydney venues exposed to Covid has been revealed, including two Kmarts, Coles, Woolworths and 29 public transport routes. Pictured: Commuters in Sydney donning face masks
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian (pictured moments before her Covid press conference in Sydney on Monday) admitted it was nearly 'impossible' lockdown would end on Friday
Contact tracers are frantically seeking shoppers who attended two Kmarts, where hundreds of people may have been exposed to the virus.
Anyone who attended Casula Kmart at the Casula Mall on Thursday July 8 between 6pm to 6.45pm is considered a casual contact and must immediately get tested and isolate until a negative result is recorded.
It is the same story for shoppers who visited Bankstown Kmart at Bankstown Central on Friday 9 July from 11am to 11.30am.
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Health authorities are also concerned about various other retail giants in the area which have also been flagged as casual contacts late on Monday night.
Bankstown Big W was issued with a public health alert for July 9 from 11am to 11.30am.
Wetherill Park Woolworths was identified as an exposure site for Friday July 9 between 3pm to 3.15pm and on Saturday July 10 between 12pm to 12.35pm.
Kmart Bankstown (pictured) was among the venues flagged by NSW as a Covid exposure sit
A Westpac bank branch in Covid-ravaged Fairfield area was added to the list of exposure sites
While Oran Park Woolworths was flagged for Friday July 9 from 6am to 2pm, Saturday July 10 between 6am to 4pm and again on Sunday July 11 from 6am to 11.20am.
Shoppers who visited the Fairfield West Coles at the Markey Plaza on Saturday July 10 between 12.30pm to 1.30pm must also self isolate.
Other venues issued with a public health alert include in Covid-ravaged Fairfield area include a Westpac bank branch and the Ware Street Medical Practice.
Also worrying policymakers and health experts is the raft of public transport routes now declared exposure sites.
The 12 busses and 17 train lines span right across the Harbour City from the west in places like Auburn and Lidcome to the CBD's Central and Wynyard stations.
Stops in Jannali, Miranda and Hurstville in Sydney's south were also issued with public health alerts along with Neutral Bay on Sydney's Lower North Shore.
Worrying the state's policymakers and health experts is the raft of public transport routes now declared exposure sites
Central station (pictured) was issued with a public health alert after being declared an exposure site
The 12 busses and 17 train lines span right across the Harbour City from the west in places like Auburn and Lidcome to the CBD's Central and Wynyard stations
Ms Berejiklian said the 'vast majority' of the new cases recorded on Monday were in the Fairfield local government area in Sydney's south-west and repeated calls for its residents to stay home under the terms of the city's lockdown unless they absolutely have to go out.
She said health officials were also still seeing high levels of transmission in the neighbouring Canterbury-Bankstown and Liverpool government areas.
'The risk is everywhere in those areas,' she said. 'We have to be upfront with where the virus is circulating at the moment.'
The triple-figure rise in coronavirus cases is the largest daily increase since April 2020. The state's outbreak that began on June 16 has now reached 678 infections.
Of the new locally-acquired cases, NSW Health said 48 were still under investigation and 41 of them were household contacts of previously known infections.
In a lone bright spot for Sydneysiders, there were only 34 cases out in the community while infectious compared to the 45 announced on Sunday.
Ms Berejiklian said there would have to be zero - or nearly zero - active community cases a day for her to consider easing the lockdown as scheduled on July 16, with many speculating it may continue for several more weeks.
'That is the number that we need to see go down to as close to zero as possible, before we can get advice from Health to say the lockdown can end,' she said.
'It's critical, that's something all of us have a role to play in.'
