Two more coronavirus cases have been detected in Sydney’s northern beaches, a day after two other residents and a Sydney Airport worker tested positive to the virus.
NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard announced the confirmation of the two new cases on Thursday morning, but said further details were still being established.
The new cases take the state’s total to five locally-transmitted cases in two days after almost two weeks of no new infections in the community.
“We’ll make some specific announcements once we have some detail and hopefully we’ll do that a bit later on,” he said.
“It is sufficient to say, our cases of apparent community transmission at this point would strongly suggest to any of the residents of the Northern Beaches that you should go and get tested.”
It was revealed on Wednesday evening that a woman in her 60s and a man in his 70s who were close contacts of each other had tested positive to COVID-19. Both are residents of Sydney’s northern beaches, prompting NSW Health to issue an alert for a number of locations across the region.
These included Palm Beach female change rooms, Coast Palm Beach Cafe, Avalon Bowlo, Sneaky Grind Cafe at Avalon Beach, Avalon Beach Woolworths, and Oliver’s Pie at Avalon.
The alerts came just hours after authorities announced that a 45-year-old van driver from Sydney’s southwest had tested positive for the virus after working to transfer international aircrew to their accommodation.
There is currently no link between the Airport worker and the mystery northern beaches cases.
One of the new cases announced on Thursday was also located in the northern end of the northern beaches, near the first two cases, while the second hailed from the southern end of the region, Mr Hazzard said.
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