Coronavirus NSW: Alert for The Juniors Kingsford club; two local cases
NSW authorities have issued a new health alert for people who may have spead COVID-19 without even knowing they had it, and urged anyone who attended a leagues club in Kingsford across a seven day period to monitor for symptoms.
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NSW Health is on the hunt for people spreading coronavirus in south east Sydney and don’t even know it.
The health authority has found someone who they believe had the virus in September which lead to at least another case in south east Sydney.
The person, who has now recovered, spread the virus to a person who was in the area on October 15.
NSW Health is calling on anyone in the area who had symptoms like a runny nose or scratchy throat, cough, tiredness or fever to go and get tested now.
Concerns have also been raised for people who went to Souths Juniors Club at Kingsford between September 26 and October 2, Century 21 Dixon Real Estate from September 26 to October 3 and The Shed Cafe Royal Randwick on Saturday October 3.
“Anybody that was in the ground floor gaming or the Jewel gaming room on level two, between these dates should monitor their health and if they show any signs of Covid-19 they should immediately self-isolate and get tested,” Juniors management said in a statement.
“For the sake of clarity, if you do not feel ill or show signs of Covid-19 you can continue your activities as normal, but we ask you remain vigilant for any signs or symptoms.”
The club remains open and management said the site is routinely cleaned “every night using government approved COVID effective chemicals.”
NSW records two locally acquired COVID cases
There have been two new cases of locally transmitted COVID-19 in NSW in the past day and eight infections in hotel quarantine.
It comes as the NSW Government has announced it will relax restrictions for churches and gyms from Friday.
Church services will be allowed to have up to 300 people — as long as they follow the 4 square metre per person rule — while gyms will not need a COVID-19 marshall when there are less than 20 people at the venue.
Authorities have been buoyed by test numbers have doubled from the last reporting period – jumping from 7,401 to 14,932 but NSW Health is still urging people to get tested.
“Anyone with symptoms of a cold should assume it’s COVID-19 until proven otherwise by a test. Get tested on the day you get those symptoms – don’t wait to see if they go away,” they said in a statement.
Both of the new local cases are linked to the Great Beginnings childcare centre cluster in Oran Park. There are now 22 cases linked to the facility.
Warnings have also been issued for anyone who visited Bavarian Macarthur, in Campbelltown, on Saturday 10 October from 7pm to 9pm.
Anyone who was inside the venue for an hour or more is considered a close contact and urged to isolate and get tested.
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It comes as an extension of Queensland’s border bubble may happen before the state totally reopens to NSW.
Queensland Health Minister Steven Miles said a series of factors would come into decisions on the border, including sewage testing and the location of NSW cases that could not be traced to a known contact.
“It’s not a binary decision,” Mr Miles said. “There’s a whole series of decisions here.”
He suggested his Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young may decide to extend the border zone further into NSW next week, rather than reopen the border to all NSW residents.
“The Chief Health Officer will continue to monitor the situation in other states and provide advice and make decisions in the lead-up to what we announced in the road map was an intention to expand the borders come November 1,” Mr Miles said.
“The concern in NSW continues to be those cases of unlinked transmission. That’s one of the factors that Jeannette will look closely at. We’ll take that into account, as well as reviewing the situation in Victoria. I encourage you not to look at this as a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ question.
“I know that people want to boil it down to one simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’, but it’s not that simple.”
It comes as the entire crew aboard a ship, the MV Sofrana Surville, anchored off Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, will be tested following confirmation that a worker previously on-board has tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in New Zealand.
“There are no confirmed cases currently on the ship,” Queensland Health said in a statement.
VIC CASE FROM TUESDAY A REINFECTION
Daniel Andrews said the positive case recorded on Tuesday was a reinfection of a person who had previously tested positive.
“The person from yesterday who tested positive twice, the first time back in July, he is currently regarded as a reinfection of coronavirus, so he will be recorded as a positive case,” Mr Andrews said.
“There have been very few reported cases of reinfection around the world. It is also case that persistent shedding over a long period of time can be a feature of this virus.”
Victoria recorded three new cases and no deaths in the past 24 hours.
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