NSW Covid updates: Emanuel School Randwick student positive

The Emanuel School at Randwick has been advised by NSW Health that a student has tested positive for Covid-19.

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The Emanuel School at Randwick has been advised by NSW Health that a student has tested positive for Covid-19.

All secondary staff and students have been asked to self-isolated until they receive further advice.

All primary staff and students should monitor for symptoms and if symptoms develop, be tested and self-isolate until a negative result is received.

School Principal Andrew Watts said the school will continue to work closely with NSW Health to ensure the health and safety of all students and staff is maintained.

The school’s site will be non operational on Monday to allow time for contact tracing and cleaning.

NSW has recorded 30 new local cases of Covid-19 in the 24 hours to 8pm Saturday night, all of which are linked to the Bondi cluster.

For a full list of venues on Covid alert, click here.

Updates

9:31 pm June 27, 2021 Highlight

CROSSROADS HOTEL INCORRECTLY NAMED

Dani Pogson

The beleaguered Crossroads Hotel in Casula has been the victim of a bureaucratic blunder after it was incorrectly listed as a venue of concern by the NSW Health department.

It appeared on the state’s list yesterday as having been visited by someone who has since tested positive for Covid.

But late on Sunday afternoon the Ministry of Health issued an urgent correction, saying the venue should have been the similarly named Crossways Hotel in Strathfield South- a completely different venue 25 minutes’ drive away.

“NSW Health can advise that the correct venue of concern is Crossways Hotel, 482 Liverpool Rd, Strathfield South. The dates and times remain the same.”

The infected person was there on June 23 between 7pm and 10.30pm and anyone who was there at the same time must now self isolate for 14 days.

The Crossroads Hotel was at the centre of one of Sydney’s biggest Covid outbreaks last year and went for 72 days and infected 552 people.

NSW has recorded 30 new local cases of Covid-19 in the 24 hours to 8pm Saturday night, all of which are linked to the Bondi cluster.

– Christopher Harris

8:37 pm June 27, 2021 Highlight

NT MINE WORKER TESTS POSITIVE IN NSW

Dani Pogson

A Glenn Innes man in his 30s also tested positive for Covid-19 on Sunday after returning from the NT mine site.

The man, who will be officially counted in Monday’s figures, was already in isolation and does not pose a risk to the community.

More than 900 people who worked at the Granites gold mine in the Tanami Desert 540kms north west of Alice Springs, have potentially been exposed to the virus, after a Victorian FIFO worker was unknowingly infectious while onsite.

Until genome sequencing is completed, the outbreak is being treated as the Delta variant.

6:14 pm June 27, 2021 Highlight

NEW VENUE ALERTS ISSUED

Dani Pogson

NSW Health has issued new alerts for six venues in Bondi, Bexley North and Coogee this evening.

Anyone who attended the following venues at the times listed is a close contact and must immediately get tested and isolate for 14 days, regardless of the result.

– Bondi: Briony's Hair, Shop 3 and 4/40 Wairoa Avenue, Wednesday 23 June 10:15am – 10:45am
– Bexley North: Angelo Angestis Aquatic Centre (indoors) (also known as Bexley Aquatic), 98C Preddys Rd, Wednesday 23 June 3:30pm – 4:45pm

Anyone who attended the following venues at the listed times is a casual contact and must immediately get tested and self-isolate until a negative result is received.

– Coogee: Woolworths Metro Coogee, 184-196 Coogee Bay Road, Wednesday 23 June 5pm – 5.30pm
– Coogee: Coogee Bakery, 184-196 Coogee Bay Rd, Wednesday 23 June 5pm – 5.30pm
– Coogee: S2 Coogee Village Deli, 184-196 Coogee Bay Rd, Wednesday 23 June 5pm – 5.30pm

– Coogee: Coogee Village Butchery, 184-196 Coogee Bay Rd, Wednesday 23 June 5pm – 5.30pm

Full details here

6:04 pm June 27, 2021 Highlight

PAIR COP COVID FINES AT BONDI BEACH

Greg Dunlop

A man and a woman from Sydney's eastern suburbs have been fined $1000 each after allegedly flouting the NSW's strict Covid-19 rules at Bondi Beach.

Police saw a number number of people sitting on a grassed area at about 10am this morning near Campbell Parade and directed them to leave.

A short time later, the officers discovered that a 35-year-old man and a 29-year-old woman had returned.

The offences were in breach of the stay-at-home orders issued by Premier Gladys Berejiklian this week as state grapples with an escalating Covid-19 outbreak.

A surfer walks past a sign for a COVID-19 testing clinic at Bondi Beach. Picture: AFP

6:03 pm June 27, 2021

30 NEW CASES ANNOUNCED ON SUNDAY

Dani Pogson

NSW has recorded 30 new local cases of Covid-19 in the 24 hours to 8pm Saturday night, all of which are linked to the Bondi cluster.

Only 11 of these cases were in isolation while they were possibly infectious. A further three were in isolation for some of their infectious period, NSW Health said.

“A number of people were in the community while potentially infectious,” Premier Gladys Berejiklian said.

Ten new cases are linked to the Great Ocean Foods wholesaler in Marrickville.

5:32 pm June 27, 2021 Highlight

DOCTORS SAY THEY CAN'T USE ASTRAZENECA

Australians under 60 want the AstraZeneca vaccine, but GPs say they cannot give it to them for fear of being sued and the jabs are about to expire.

“People would like to have it, I had people who were coming in on Thursday last week who would happily have had it (the AstraZeneca jab),” former Australian Medical Association president and GP Dr Mukesh Haikerwal said.

But he and NSW AMA president Dr Danielle McMullen said doctors were not confident the government’s medical indemnity scheme would fully protect them if they gave the jab to this group.

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4:34 pm June 27, 2021

WA COVID CASE LINKED TO BONDI CLUSTER

A woman in Perth has tested positive for Covid-19 after visiting a Bondi cafe, prompting the West Australian government to reimpose some restrictions for at least three days.

WA Health Minister Roger Cook said it was believed the woman, aged in her 50s, had the highly contagious Delta strain of the virus, but she had taken her first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine.

“We are treating this situation very seriously,” Mr Cook said on Sunday.

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3:11 pm June 27, 2021 Highlight

NO VACCINES FOR UNDER FORTIES YET

Australians under 40 will not be allowed to sign a waiver to get the AstraZeneca vaccine if they wish as the federal government rules out overriding the highly cautious health advice.

There is also essentially no chance there will be enough Pfizer vaccine to open up the rollout to the younger cohorts before October, based on current expected deliveries from overseas.

Health Minister Greg Hunt said the only Australians under 40 able to receive the vaccine remained those in critical frontline work, including defence, police, health and aged care, as well as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged over 18.

"Around the world the principal approach based on the medical advice has been to provide the available supplies on medical risk," he said.

– Clare Armstrong

2:27 pm June 27, 2021

YOUNG PEOPLE WILL HAVE TO WAIT FOR VACCINE

Premier Gladys Berejiklian says younger people will not be eligible to receive a Covid vaccine until more doses become available.

She said that “millions of people” across the state want a shot but the supply is controlled by the federal Government.

The Pfizer vaccine is being offered to only members of the general public over 40 years old.

“The NSW Government can't control how many doses we get,” Ms Berejiklian said.

“The more doses we have, the more jabs will be able to get into arms.”

– James O'Doherty

1:41 pm June 27, 2021 Highlight

DARWIN ENTERS 48-HOUR LOCKDOWN

Parts of the Northern Territory will go into a 48-hour lockdown, as four new cases of Covid-19 were recorded.

Darwin, Palmerston and Litchfield will go into lockdown from 1pm local time on Sunday.

NT Chief Minister Michael Gunner said authorities were taking “extreme action” to stop or slow any spread of the virus.

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