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Fifty new Covid exposure sites have been revealed including the usual dozens of Sydney supermarkets, cafes and takeaways - as well as busy shops in the state's north.

Of the six close contact sites, meaning people must isolate for 14 days regardless of test results, five are around Byron Bay after a Covid-infected Sydneysider visited the town with his two teenage children, who also have the virus.

Woolworths and Japonaise Kitchen in Byron Bay, as well as Bangalow Pharmacy and Foodworks in the same village, have all put on high alert, as well as Harvest Cafe in nearby Newrybar.

Fifty new Covid exposure sites have been revealed including the usual dozens of Sydney supermarkets, cafes and takeaways (pictured, a resident buying fruit in  Bankstown)

The trendy barbershop Barber Industries in the Newcastle suburb of Kotara is the sixth venue that features on the list of new close contact sites. 

An array of casual contact sites have also been added to a worrying list of 50 new venues, with Blacktown in the city's west one of the hardest hit. 

A 7-Eleven, Max Brenner, Nando's, an auto-parts store and a busy Woolworths in the Covid-ravaged suburb all feature on the list of new high-risk sites. 

The popular Balkan Oven Bakery Café in Rockdale in the city's south has been exposed to the virus for more than two weeks. 

Any customers who visited the café anytime between Saturday, July 24 and Saturday, August 7 has been urged to get tested for Covid-19. 

The Newcastle Basketball Stadium in Broadmeadow near the regional city's CBD has also been put on high alert after it was visited by a positive case of the virus. 

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The popular Balkan Oven Bakery Café (pictured) in Rockdale in the city's south has been exposed to the virus for over two weeks 

People living in or visiting student accommodation at the University of Newcastle's Callaghan campus have also been put on high alert.  

The North Residence, South Residence, East Residence, West Residence,  Barahineban and Evatt House have been exposed to the virus two days last week. 

Anyone who attended the accommodation at the listed times has been advised to get tested immediately and isolate until a negative result is received. 

The same advice applies for shoppers who visited the Chester Hill Woolworths on seven separate days over the last two weeks.

And it's the same story for any customers who visited the Woolworths in Blacktown which was similarly visited by a positive case over seven days. 

A further two branches of the same supermarket have been put on high alert, in Newcastle West and North Ryde. 

Byron Bay's Woolworths store was exposed to the virus after a Covid infected man travelled there with his two teenage children, who also tested positive 

A roadside McDonalds off the busy M1 northbound freeway in Jilliby was exposed to the virus for half an hour on August 6

The alerts for new venues in Byron Bay comes after NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian took the drastic step of shutting down the entire Northern Rivers region on Monday and the state recorded a record high of 356 new Covid-19 cases on Tuesday. 

The entire region was locked down over fears the Covid-positive man in his 50s who travelled from Sydney may have spread the virus throughout the community.

At NSW's Covid update on Monday morning, chief health officer Kerry Chant confirmed the man had travelled from Sydney to Byron Bay in late July.

She said two of his household contacts, believed to be his two daughters, are now waiting on their test results after he checked himself into Lismore Base Hospital.

About 300,000 residents who are now under the same tough restrictions as Greater Sydney, Hunter Valley, New England and Tamworth, wait with baited breath as to whether the number of infections in the area will rapidly rise.

Meanwhile the Covid-positive man who triggered the outbreak is refusing to assist contact tracers because he 'does not believe in Covid', it has been revealed.

The Newcastle Basketball Stadium in Broadmeadow near the regional city's CBD has also been put on high alert after it was visited by a positive case of the virus

Woolworths and Japonaise Kitchen in Byron Bay, as well as Bangalow Pharmacy (pictured) and Foodworks in the same village, have been put on high alert

Health authorities are trying desperately to uncover where the conspiracy theorist has travelled in the area so they can alert anyone who may have been put at risk.

But so far they have not been able to ascertain where the 'uncooperative' man has been despite repeated interviews, with no information appearing on any mandatory QR code check-ins - which he had refused to use.

The restrictions will be the same rules as those already in place across Greater Sydney, as well as Tamworth, Armidale, Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, Maitland, Port Stephens, Singleton, Dungog, Muswellbrook and Cessnock.

The Covid scare in the state's locked-down city of Tamworth comes after a woman, who was exposed to the virus in Newcastle, visited several venues including a pub, cafe and hotel on August 4. 

Ms Berejiklian announced that area's seven-day lockdown would begin from 5pm on Monday with interstate travel would remain restricted until Greater Sydney got the current Indian Delta outbreak under control. 

The Covid-positive man, aged in his 50s, who triggered the lockdown of the entire Northern Rivers region checked himself in to the Lismore Base Hospital (pictured)

Sydney's Covid crisis hit record highs overnight as the state recorded another 356 cases with more than 200 infectious in the community (pictured, cleaners at Broadway shopping centre)

Meanwhile Sydney's Covid crisis hit record highs overnight as the state recorded another 356 cases with more than 200 infectious in the community. 

Premier Gladys Berejiklian said three people had died, including a man and a woman from south-west Sydney in their 80s and another man in his 70s from the city's west.

None of them were vaccinated and all of them died in hospital. 

The man in his 80s was connected to the Liverpool Hospital outbreak, which has now infected 29 patients and is linked to six Covid-19 deaths.

Tuesday's infections include 97 who were out in the community and 157 whose isolation status is unknown - meaning as many as 254 of NSW's new cases were not self-isolating while contagious.

More than six weeks into a strict stay-at-home lockdown across Greater Sydney, Premier Gladys Berejiklian said even the toughest restrictions on daily life would do little to stop the relentless spread of the highly-contagious Delta strain.

Premier Gladys Berejiklian said three people had died, including a man and a woman from south-west Sydney in their 80s and another man in his 70s from the city's west

'Strategies that may have worked in the past aren't going to have effect with Delta. It is something we need to accept,' Ms Berejiklian said.

'Your approach has to be different. Fortunately, we have what we didn't have before - a vaccine.'

She said a 'targeted' vaccination approach in the city's Covid-stricken western and south-western suburbs was the only way to drive down transmission of the virus.

'A targeted approach in those local government areas with our vaccine strategies is key to reducing those case numbers,' she said.

Health authorities said 234 cases - almost two-thirds of the infections - were found in Sydney's west and south-west, while the Canterbury-Bankstown LGA emerging over recent days as the new epicentre of the outbreak.

Another 40 cases were found in central Sydney, 38 in the city's south-east, 24 in the Nepean Blue Mountains and 13 in the Hunter-New England region.

Tuesday's infections include 97 who were out in the community and 157 whose isolation status is unknown (pictured, NSW police patrolling the promenade at Bondi Beach)

Health authorities said 234 cases - almost two-thirds of the infections - were found in Sydney's west and south-west (pictured, people order takeaway food in Sydney's CBD)

In a promising sign though for towns enduring snap lockdowns in regional NSW, no further cases were found in Tamworth, Armidale or Byron Bay in the state's north-east.

But Ms Berejiklian said it was too early to tell though whether Newcastle and the Upper Hunter region would be released from lockdown on time on Thursday.

Seven LGAs including Newcastle and Lake Macquarie were sent into a snap week-long lockdown last week after three cases were found in the region.

'We’ll rely on [NSW Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant's] advice on that. If she recommends an extension of the lockdown, that’s what will happen,' she said.

'If she determines that Tamworth and Armidale can come out of lockdown, that’s what we’ll announce as well.'

Families with children at Bondi Beach Public School were informed by authorities on Monday night to keep children at home when it was discovered an infected student had attended class before recording a positive Covid test.

In a letter, Bondi Beach Public School principal Gai O'Neill told families they would receive more information on how long their kids should isolate later today.

Families with children at Bondi Beach Public School (pictured) were informed by authorities on Monday night to keep children at home when it was discovered an infected student had attended class before recording a positive Covid test

Of the new cases on Tuesday, 40 were found in central Sydney, 38 in the city's south-east, 24 in the Nepean Blue Mountains and 13 in the Hunter-New England region (pictured, customers social distancing in the food court area of Broadway Shopping Centre)

'The NSW Department of Education has been advised by NSW Health that a student at our school has tested positive for Covid-19,' Principal O'Neill wrote in a letter to parents.

'All students and staff are asked to to self isolate until you receive further advice.' 

Families at Shortland Public School near Newcastle were provided the same advice after a 'member of the school community' returned a positive test.

'Just isolate and await further advice at this stage,' the school's Facebook page informs. 'We will know more today after advice from NSW Health.'

Both schools were undergoing contact tracing and deep cleaning procedures.