COVID-19 Macarthur: NSW Health warning residents to get tested after virus detected in sewage
Covid-19 Virus fragments found in sewage in south-west Sydney sparks renewed calls for residents to get tested. Campbelltown, Eagle Vale, Bradbury, Airds and Minto amongst the areas impacted.
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Fresh alerts have been listed for anyone who attended a Leppington gym, with a person visiting multiple times before learning they were infectious with Covid-19.
Fresh alerts have been listed for anyone who attended a Leppington gym, with a person visiting multiple times before learning they were infectious with Covid-19.
Anyone who attended F45 Leppington gym between Thursday October 15 and Wednesday October 28 at certain times are being considered a close contact and should get tested immediately.
Most of the classes impacted were in the morning.
A list is available on the NSW Health website,
The discovery of COVID-19 virus fragments in sewage at a treatment plant in Glenfield in south-west Sydney has prompted renewed calls from NSW Health for residents to get tested.
NSW Health says that the detection of the virus in the sewage samples could be from known cases living in the area, but they could also be from other active cases in the community.
Anyone with symptoms that may be similar to that of a cold in the following areas are urged to get tested-
Airds, Ambarvale, Appin, Bardia, Blair Athol, Blairmount, Bow Bowing, Bradbury, Campbelltown, Casula, Claymore, Eagle Vale, Englorie Park, Eschol Park, Glen Alpine, Glenfield, Ingleburn, Kearns, Leumeah, Macquarie Fields, Macquarie Links, Menangle Park, Minto, Raby, Rosemeadow, Ruse, St Andrews, St Helens Park, Varroville and Woodbine.
Meanwhile, 23 people have now been infected with Covid-19 with links to the Oran Park childcare cluster.
NSW Health urges anyone who attended Great Beginning Child Care Centre at Oran Park on October 2 until the centre closed on October 13.
Alerts have been issued for an Oran Park childcare centre, after an educator and a family now linked to a confirmed covid-19 case attended the centre.
Meanwhile, NSW Health have reported a new positive Covid-19 case in the township of Bargo.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said it was concerning to see a case pop up so far away from Sydney, and that an elderly man in Bargo was being interviewed to determine the source of his infection.
New testing clinics have opened up in the area.
Picton GP Respiratory Clinic, Camden Hospital Walk-in Clinic, Bowral and District Hospital at Outpatients Clinic, Campbelltown Hospital and the Mittagong GP Respiratory Clinic are now open for testing.
It follows a health alert issued last Tuesday warning of six locations in the Campbelltown region, after someone who tested positive with COVID-19 visited the businesses in the past week.
People are being urged to get tested after it was confirmed a positive case visited multiple shops in south-west Sydney.
The sites include:
Oran Park Woolworth on September 30 between 5.30pm and 6.30pm, Thursday, October 8, between 5.15pm and 6pm, and Friday, October 9, between 6 and 6.30pm.
Emerald Hills McDonalds in Leppington on Friday 2 October from 5pm to 5.15pm.
Prasadi Nepali, Emerald Hills, 2 Hurricane Drive, Raby on Friday 2 October from 3:30pm to 4pm.
Aldi Emerald Hills in Leppington on Friday 2 October from 5.30pm to 6.15pm.
Fantastic Furniture Campbelltown on Friday 9 October from 3.30pm to 5.20pm.
Bunnings Gregory Hills on Tuesday, 6 October, from 7pm to 8pm.
NSW Health says anyone who attended the venues at those times are considered casual contacts and must monitor for symptom and get tested immediately if they develop.
A new pop-up Covid testing clinic has opened at Oran Park at Julia Reserve Community Centre