Whole inner-east shopping centre added to

Whole inner-east shopping centre added to Sydney exposure site list

All shoppers who attended an entire inner-east Sydney shopping centre over a two-hour period on Monday have been ordered to get tested, as the city’s COVID-19 exposure site list continues to grow.

Meanwhile, visitors to the Northmead Bowling Club over the course of six and a half hours on Sunday afternoon are being told to contact NSW Health, get tested and await further advice.

The department on Thursday night updated the exposure list following news earlier in the day that a 70-year-old woman who attended the same cafe as a coronavirus-infected Sydney man had tested positive.

A fourth positive test result, from a man in his 40s, only “showed low virus levels” but an expert panel was “unable to rule out the possibility” that he had the virus.

NSW Health said the bowls club was listed “out of an abundance of caution”.

The Harris Farm store on Norton Street has been confirmed as a potential exposure site visited by Sydney’s positive coronavirus cases. (Norton Plaza)

All of Zetland’s East Village Shopping Centre, from 11am to 1pm on Monday, has been declared as a casual contact exposure site, requiring visitors to isolate until they receive a negative test.

Anyone who visited the centre’s Lorna Jane store over the same period must quarantine for two weeks regardless of the result and a health alert has also been issued for Bondi’s The Health Emporium for Tuesday.

Sydney exposure sites

The list of exposure sites has grown to spread from Redfern to the eastern suburbs and the inner west,

Anyone who visited the following venues is considered a close contact and must get tested and self-isolate for 14 days, regardless of the result:

Bondi Junction: Event Cinemas, 1.30pm to 4pm on Sunday 13 June
Zetland: Lorna Jane, East Village Shopping Centre, 11am to 1pm on Monday, 14 June
Bus route 200, Bondi Junction interchange to Blue St, North Sydney, Tuesday, 15 June, 4.25pm to 5pm

Westfield in Bondi Junction is among the exposure sites announced by NSW Health. (Edwina Pickles)

Anyone at the below venues at the relevant times is considered a close contact and must call NSW Health, get tested, and self-isolate until they hear back from health authorities.

Vaucluse: Belle Café 103 New South Head Road, Friday 11 June 9.15am to 9.50am
Bondi Junction: Sourdough Bakery 500 Oxford Street, Friday 11 June 12.40pm to 1.10pm
Vaucluse: Belle Café 103 New South Head Road, Saturday 12 June 10.20am to 10.45am
Bondi Junction: David Jones 500 Oxford Street, Saturday 12 June 11am to 11.40am
Bondi Junction: Myer Bondi 500 Oxford Street, Saturday 12 June 11.40am to 12.15pm
Vaucluse: Washoku Vaucluse 52 New South Head Road, Saturday 12 June 12pm to 1.30pm
Vaucluse: Belle Cafe 103 New South Head Road Saturday 12 June 1.20pm to 1.50pm
Vaucluse: Belle Cafe 103 New South Head Road Sunday 13 June 11.30am to 12pm
Northmead: Northmead Bowling Club, Sunday 13 June, 3.30pm to 10.00pm
Bondi Junction: Events Cinema (all screenings other than the Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard) 500 Oxford Street Sunday 13 June 1.30pm to 4pm
Vaucluse: Rocco’s 103B New South Head Road Monday 14 June 10.55am to 11.30am
Zetland: Coles, East Village Shopping Centre, Monday 14 June, 11am to 1pm
Zetland: Taste Growers (fruit and vegetable shop), East Village Shopping Centre, Monday 14 June, 11am to 1pm
Redfern, Wax Car Wash Cafe, Monday 14 June, 12pm to 3pm
Leichhardt: Harris Farm, Shop B1, 51-57 Norton Street Tuesday June 15 9.50am to 10.05am
Vaucluse: Belle Cafe 103 New South Head Road Tuesday 15 June 9.50am to 10.25am
North Ryde: Celeste Catering Macquarie Park Cemetery Cafe Macquarie Park Cemetery, Corner of Delhi and Plassey roads, Tuesday 15 June 1pm to 1.20pm
Bondi Junction: Harry’s Coffee and Kitchen, Tuesday 15 June, 3pm to 3.40pm
Bondi Junction: NAB in Westfield Tuesday 15 June, 2.45pm to 3.10pm
Bondi Junction: David Jones in Westfield, Tuesday 15 June, 3.30pm to 4.15pm
Vaucluse: Field to Fork, Friday 11 June, 12pm to 4pm

Visitors to the following venues at the relevant times are considered casual contacts and must immediately get tested and isolate until they receive a negative result.

Zetland: East Village Shopping Centre, Monday, 14 June, 11am to 1pm
Bondi: Fruitologist, Tuesday, 15 June, 1pm to 2pm
Bondi: The Health Emporium, Tuesday, 15 June, 12.15pm to 12.45pm

A full list of exposure sites across the state is available on the NSW Health website.

Bondi Beach drive-through testing clinic is seeing large numbers after two local acquired COVID-19 cases were detected. June 17, 2021. (Rhett Wyman/SMH)

Long queues for tests

On Thursday, residents in Sydney’s east faced wait times of over an hour as thousands flock to testing sites following the two cases of locally acquired COVID-19 diagnosed on Wednesday.

Long queues began forming as early as 7.30am in Bondi after a series of COVID-19 alerts were issued for venues across the eastern suburbs.

The alerts were issued late last Wednesday night after a second new case of coronavirus was detected in Bondi with cafes, department stores, a movie theatre and a car wash now included.

Late Wednesday, NSW Health revealed the second case was a household contact of a man in his 60s, whose positive COVID-19 test was announced earlier in the day.

The first identified case is a driver and transports international flight crews, NSW Health said. 9News understands he is not vaccinated against COVID-19.

Urgent investigations into the source of the infection and contact tracing are underway, as is genome sequencing.

NSW Health is reaching out to close contacts of the man.

On Wednesday night, two locations at the East Village Shopping Centre in Zetland, a bus route, several sites in Bondi Junction and a car wash in Redfern were added to the list of exposure sites. Further additions were made throughout Thursday.