Three new COVID cases for northern beaches, after four week clean slate

Since the latest outbreak the northern beaches has kept COVID at bay. But now there are three active cases on the peninsula.

There are three new COVID cases on the northern beaches.

The peninsula has managed to avoid any covid cases in the last four weeks following the Bondi outbreak.

However, NSW Health has now confirmed there are three cases on the peninsula.

They include two in Belrose and one in Allambie Heights.

It comes as alerts were sent out overnight for multiple new exposure sites including a popular bottleshop, a Bunnings, a Woolies, a kebab shop and a shopping centre.

Anyone who attended the following venues at the times listed is a casual contact who must immediately get tested and isolate until a negative result is received.

Premier Gladys Berejiklian at a COVID press conference. (Photo by Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images)

The venues are:

* Bayfield’s Superstore at the Belrose Hotel – Thursday, July 8, between 7.20pm to 7.40pm and on Sunday, July 11, from 4.45pm to 5pm.

* Bunnings Belrose – Thursday, July 8, between 7pm to 7.45pm and on Sunday, July 11, from 1.15pm to 2pm.

* Gyronimo’s Kebabs at Forestway Shopping Centre – Sunday, July 11, from 1.30pm to 2.15pm.

* Woolworths at Forestway Shopping Centre – Sunday, July 11, from 1.30pm to 2.15pm.

Anyone who attended anywhere within the Forestway Shopping Centre – Sunday, July 11, from 1.30pm to 2.15pm must monitor for symptoms and if they occur get tested immediately and self-isolate until you receive a negative result.

Overnight there were 97 new cases across NSW, 24 were infectious in the community.

At a press conference this morning Premier Gladys Berejiklian announced lockdown would be extended to July 30.

Last week two northern beaches MPs, Mackellar MP Jason Falinski and Manly MP James Griffin, called for the beaches to be exempt from the lockdown because there were zero cases.