Coronavirus: Fairfield Neeta City Shopping Centre hit by COVID-19

A major Fairfield shopping centre in the heart of the city is the latest venue to be struck by coronavirus after a positive case visited the site a number of times.

Neeta City Shopping Centre in Fairfield.

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Shoppers at Fairfield City’s Neeta Shopping Centre have been advised to monitor for coronavirus symptoms after a positive case visited the site multiple times last week.

NSW Health on Sunday confirmed the person attended the centre a number of times between July 23 and July 30, and visited stores including the Soul Pattinson Chemist, Woolworths and Fresco Juice Bar.

“While the risk to others is thought low, anyone who visited the shopping centre on these days should to monitor for symptoms and if symptoms develop, seek testing and isolate themselves pending the test results,” a NSW Health spokeswoman said.

The positive case visited shops including Woolworths.

Twelve new cases were recorded in the 24 hours to 8pm on Saturday, including a traveller in hotel quarantine, three cases who attended the Apollo restaurant on Juy 25, and two cases who attended the Mounties Club in Mt Pritchard on July 23.

Five cases were close contacts of known cases and one case was locally acquired with no known source identified.

“While most cases in the past week have been associated with local clusters and close contact with known cases, seven in the last week have not been able to be linked to known cases,” the spokeswoman said.

“These unlinked cases have been in people from South Western, Western Sydney, South Eastern Sydney and Sydney LHDs.”