New NSW Covid-19 case leads to health alerts for Bondi cinema, shops

Authorities are scrambling to find the source of a new case of Covid-19 in Bondi after a man in his 60s tested positive. Check the latest exposure sites.

Sydney is on high alert after a Bondi man tested positive to Covid-19, leaving behind a trail of eastern suburbs venues as exposure sites, including a cinema and a popular cafe.

The man, in his 60s, is a driver who has transported international airline crews but did not travel overseas himself.

He undertook a saliva test on Tuesday and was confirmed as a positive case on Wednesday. The source of the infection has not been confirmed and authorities are urging people to come forward for testing.

The positive case travelled to number a venues between June 11-15 including going to Belle Cafe in Vaucluse on four out of five days.

He also went to Myer and David Jones inside Bondi Junction Westfield, where he also watched a screening of the Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard at Event Cinemas.

It is not the shopping mall’s first Covid-19 scare, with an another positive case visiting the complex in late April and early May.

The man also travelled to Zetland and Redfern.

While most of the latest exposed venues were within the eastern suburbs, the positive case also visited the Celeste Catering Macquarie Park Cemetery Cafe in North Ryde on Tuesday.

Events Cinema Bondi Junction.

David Jones Food Hall in Bondi Junction, which has been exposed to a Covid-19 case,

Westfield, Myer Bondi Junction.

The new case follows confirmation from health authorities that they are investigating the possibility of the virus spreading between returned travellers inside a hotel quarantine facility.

A couple and another returned traveller who were staying on level four of the Radisson Blu hotel were revealed to have the same strain of the virus through genomic sequencing. All three people had the UK variant of the virus. There is no suggestion the three cases are linked to the new Bondi case.