Coronavirus, Busby: Kids Learning Academy Busby closed for cleaning
A southwest Sydney daycare centre will close for cleaning after health authorities confirmed a child who tested positive for COVID-19 attended the centre while infectious.
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A positive case of COVID-19 has been reported at a daycare centre in Sydney’s southwest as health authorities continue to urge vigilance within the community.
A NSW Health spokeswoman confirmed Kids Learning Academy Busby was closed for cleaning after a child who tested positive for COVID-19 attended the centre for one day while infectious.
Contact tracing is now underway.
Twelve new cases were reported in the 24 hours to 8pm on Monday with close to 13,000 tests conducted in the same period.
One case was a traveller in hotel quarantine, three were household cases acquired in Victoria and eight were locally acquired infections linked to known clusters.
Of the eight, one case was linked to the Thai Rock restaurant Wetherill Park, two cases visited the Apollo restaurant in Potts Point and two cases attended Mounties in Mt Pritchard.
Three were linked to people who attended Mounties.
Two schools in Sydney’s southwest were today closed for cleaning after three students — one at Bonnyrigg High School and two at Greenway Park Public School — tested positive for the virus.
All three are linked to cases who visited Mounties.
Students are undertaking remote learning and contact tracing is underway.
There are now 103 cases connected to the Thai Rock Wetherill Park cluster, 58 cases linked to the Crossroads Hotel cluster and 40 with the funeral events in Bankstown and surrounding suburbs, including 16 linked to Mounties.
The Potts Point cluster has grown to 28 cases, including 22 cases linked to the Apollo restaurant and six with the Thai Rock restaurant at Potts Point.
Testing has ramped in Sydney’s southwest in response to clusters within the region, with drive-through testing clinics operating at Fisher Street Car Park in Cabramatta and the Ash Road Sporting Complex in Prestons, from 8am to 6.30pm.
Walk-in testing is available at Narellan Community Health Centre, Monday to Friday, and at Camden Hospital, seven days a week. Both clinics are open from 8am to 6pm.
The opening hours of the COVID-19 testing clinics at Campbelltown, Bowral and District, Liverpool, Fairfield and Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospitals have been extended from 8am to 6pm seven days a week.