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A third of latest NSW infections live outside northern beaches

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  • There have been 28,160 cases of the coronavirus in Australia, with 909 deaths.
  • The NSW government has reported three locally acquired new COVID-19 in the 24hrs to 8pm on Monday.
  • The latest list of NSW COVID-19 venue alerts is here.
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Breakdown of NSW coronavirus cases

Finbar O'Mallon

NSW Health has provided detailed data on the latest case numbers in the state after it reported six new infections, including three mystery cases, on Tuesday.

  • Between December 16 and December 28, there have been 142 locally acquired cases since the Avalon outbreak began.
  • One of those cases is the Sydney Airport shuttle bus driver who is believed to have caught the virus off the air crew he was transporting to hotel quarantine. His case is completely unrelated to the Avalon cluster and he did not infect anyone else.
  • Of the other 141, 96 of those cases are in Sydney's northern beaches, with 86 in the northern zone and 10 in the southern zone.
  • The rest, 46, are located outside of the northern beaches, with the majority in Sydney except for three in NSW's Central Coast region and another in Wollongong.
  • There are seven mystery cases, all outside of the northern beaches. These include a case in Wollongong, one each in Sydney's inner-west and north, a northern beaches resident who was in downtown Sydney before lockdown began, the patient transport nurse, the Sydneysider who worked at a school in Manly, and a Bondi man.
  • The patient transport nurse infected their partner with coronavirus, but the partner hasn't been counted as a mystery case.
  • Health authorities are still working to determine whether the Bondi man's infection is an old one.
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