Chinese restaurant in Sydney's Covid-hit south-west uses a BROOM to give customers takeaway food
- Eatery in Sydney's south-west adopts bizarre approach to contactless delivery
- The Good Wok Asian restaurant in Revesby taken to using a broom and a tray
- Customer's order is slid across an outdoor table by a restaurant employee
- Suburbs in Sydney's Fairfield council area are the number one Covid hotspots
- South-west Sydney accounted for 52 of state's 77 new Covid cases on Sunday
A popular restaurant in Sydney's Covid-ravaged south-west has taken to using a broom to deliver customers their takeaway food.
A man sitting outside the Good Wok Asian restaurant in Revesby captured the eatery's unusual approach to contactless delivery on Saturday.
The customer's order is placed in a white plastic tray and pushed towards them with a broom held by an employee standing behind a table.
A man sitting outside the Good Wok Asian restaurant in Revesby captured the eatery's bizarre approach to contactless delivery on Saturday and uploaded the video to TikTok
'Welcome to our new norm,' one viewer commented on the video.
'Wish the rest of Sydney would take it this seriously,' another wrote.
'Lost the plot or extremely clever?' a third viewer speculated.
The ingenious delivery technique comes as a rapidly-spreading coronavirus outbreak continues to take hold in Sydney's south-west.
In just a few days, south-western suburbs including Cabramatta, Edensor Park and Canley Vale have already become the number one infection hotspots in the city.
On Monday, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian announced the state had recorded 112 new local cases of Covid-19, with the 'vast majority' in south-west Sydney.
NSW Health has detected 105 cases in the Fairfield local government area in this latest cluster since it broke out of Sydney's eastern suburbs and moved west, representing 20 per cent of the statewide numbers.
The white knuckle expansion rate in Sydney's south-west prompted renewed pleas from Ms Berejiklian for families there to heed the lockdown rules.
The customer's order is seen being placed in a white plastic tray and pushed towards them with a broom, held by an employee standing behind a table
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In just a few days, south-western suburbs including Cabramatta, Edensor Park and Canley Vale have already become the number one infection hotspots in the city
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian - whose parents emigrated to Australia from Armenia - fears extended family gatherings are accelerating the spread of the disease in the south-west
But health experts fear the disease is ripping through the community there because the largely ethnically-diverse profile of the area creates unique challenges.
English is not the first language in 71 per cent of homes in Fairfield, and 50 per cent of the area's 290,000 population were born overseas, according to council figures.
Ms Berejiklian - whose parents emigrated to Australia from Armenia - fears extended family gatherings are accelerating the spread of the disease in the south-west.
And she fears fluid family set-ups - where households regularly mix - will cause the current lockdown to be extended for weeks.
'Can I say to the communities in those areas, many have a similar background to me, please don't mingle with family,' she said.
The premier asked that relatives did not mingle, cousins did not host sleepovers or visit each other, adding she had not seen her own parents since lockdown began.
The premier's calls were renewed on Sunday by NSW Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant, who asked that people stayed at home, within one household.
'I know that that can be a difficult concept, given the closeness of family units, but at this point in time in responding to Covid, we need to keep the households as a discrete unit so we don't get that risk of further spread', the health officer said.
The warnings come as worrying statistics suggest Sydney's crisis may be about to get substantially worse as south-west Sydney records low testing numbers.
The suburbs in the area have the highest number of cases in the city, but also the lowest testing rates, indicating the true number of infections was far higher and still spreading undetected.
'Can I say to the communities in those areas, many have a similar background to me, please don't mingle with family,' the premier said in reference to the explosion of cases in suburbs across Sydney's south-west
Suburbs in south-west Sydney have the highest number of cases in the city, but also the lowest testing rates, sparking fears the are could be hiding a huge number of undiscovered cases
To 8pm on Saturday, just 19,707 tests had been carried out on Fairfield locals - equal to a testing rate of just 93 tests per 1,000 population.
That compares with 46,409 tests in Waverley at a rate of 625 tests per 1,000, which found 69 positive results, and 70,269 tests in Randwick, equal to 451 per 1,000, which confirmed 50 cases.
Even the Northern Beaches, which has not had a single case in the latest outbreak, has maintained a testing rate of 188 tests per 1,000 population - almost double the Fairfield rate - with more than 51,000 tests done in the past four weeks.
The poor Fairfield testing figures and relatively high positivity rate suggest many cases are lingering undiagnosed, with cases predicted to explode in coming days.
Premier Gladys Berejiklian said on Sunday that the number of new cases recorded on Monday was very likely to climb above 100 and that the chance's of lockdown ending as scheduled this Friday as very remote.
