COVID Avalon Beach and Manly: Venues visited by infected people
COVID-19 has returned to Sydney’s northern beaches with infected people visiting Woolworths in Avalon and a hotel in Manly.
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A shopper who was at a northern beaches supermarket last weekend and a vistor to a large hotel in Manly have tested positive for COVID-19.
NSW Health has been sending out advice notices to people who were at the Woolworths supermarket in Avalon Beach last Saturday to get tested.
They have also alerted those who were at the Novotel Hotel in Manly on Saturday.
Visitors to the supermarket and the hotel are listed as casual contacts and must immediately get tested and self-isolate until a negative result is received.
They have also been advised to continue to monitor for symptoms and immediately isolate and get tested if symptoms develop.
Woolworths said the Avalon Beach supermarket underwent a deep clean overnight Wednesday.
It aso confirmed that there was a person who is a positive case in its Avalon store on June 26.
Management has signs up in the store alerting customers.
“We have been notified that a customer with a confirmed case of Coronavirus (COVID-19) was present in our Woolworths Avalon store on 26 June between 3.30pm and 4pm,” Woolworths saidin a statement to the Manly Daily.
“As a food retailer, we already have very high standards of cleaning and hygiene in place, and the store had a detailed deep clean overnight on Wednesday 30 June.
“Customers and team members should be assured they can continue to safely shop and work at our Woolworths Avalon store.
“Any customers who shopped in the store on 26 June and feel unwell in the next two weeks should make contact with the health authorities.”
People who were at the Novotel Syndey Manly Pacific, at 55 The Steyne, between midnight and 12pm on June 26, have been contacted by health officials.
NSW Health confirmed the exposure sites at 1.30pm on Thursday. The Government did not mention Avalon Woolies or the Novotel Manly as COVID exposure sites during its 11am daily briefing.
NSW Chief Medical Officer Kerry Chant said there had been 24 news local acquired COVID cases in the 24 hours to 8pm on Wednesday.
Dr Chant said seven of those cases were under investigation and 17 were linked to existing outbreaks in the state
The total cases in NSW since the outbreak began on June 16 has reached 195.
Premier Gladys Berejiklian the latest update was a “cause of concern”.
“We can’t afford to have people continue to have the virus going about their business. We cannot continue to allow that to happen.
“In too many examples we are seeing workers who are leaving the house with symptoms or going to work with symptoms,” Ms Berejiklian said.
“Then inadvertently as they are going about shopping or other activity, they are passing it onto others.”
In December last year and into January this year thousands of people on the northern beaches were subjected to strict lockdown conditions after a COVID breakout at Avalon Beach.
Businesses and residents south of the bridge over Narrabeen Lagoon were locked down for two weeks over the festive period, while those north of the bridge were in lockdown for three weeks.
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