Northern Sydney coronavirus by postcode: Eastwood, Marsfield among worst hit

Eastwood and Marsfield are at centre of the coronavirus outbreak in northern Sydney, as for the first time we can reveal where the COVID-19 cases have emerged down to each postcode. How safe is your suburb?

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For the first time the Northern District Times can reveal the suburbs that have been hardest hit by the coronavirus and how your neighbourhood has been impacted.

The area with the most confirmed cases — 24 — is the postcode 2122 which covers Eastwood and Marsfield.

In early February Ryde City Councillor Trenton Brown was in Eastwood to help hand out face masks to the public. Picture: Justin Lloyd

Latest figures obtained from NSW Health show that across the Northern Districts, a total of 94 residents have tested positive for the disease.

The next worst hotspot in the district is centred on the postcode 2113, with 17 confirmed cases. This postcode covers the suburbs North Ryde, East Ryde and Macquarie Park, the loction of the coronavirus cluster stemming out of the Dorothy Henderson Lodge aged care facility.

The postcode with the third highest number of infections is 2110, which takes in Hunters Hill and Woolwich. It has nine confirmed cases.

There were eight positive coronavirus tests the 2112 postcode area of Ryde, Putney and Denistone Easts. Eight infections were also recorded in the postcode 2119, centred on Beecroft and Cheltenham.

Ken Liang, a shop assistant at a Chinese grocery in Eastwood sorting fruit shelves in the s Shopping precinct along Rowe St where people on the street are wearing masks as a safeguard. Picture: Britta Campion/The Australian

The suburbs of Denistone, Denistone West, West Ryde, Meadowbank and Melrose Park, in the 2114 postcode area have six confirmed cases as does the 2118 postcode with Carlingford and Carlingford North.

Four positive tests have been recorded in Ermington and Rydalmere — postcodes 2115 and 2116 — while three people have the disease in postcode 2121, Epping and North Epping.

The postcode with the least amount of people with the disease is 2111 which contains Gladesville, Boronia Park, Henley, Huntleys Point, Huntleys Cove and Tennyson Point.

There were two coronavirus clusters in the district.

The first stemmed from transmissions at Dorothy Henderson Lodge starting from February 24.

The entrance to Dorothy Henderson Lodge at Macquarie Park. A number of its elderly residents have died of coronavirus. Picture: Jenny Evans/Getty Images

A second cluster started at a church service held at Ryde Civic Centre on March 8 where initially four people tested positive including the evangelist.

The total number of confirmed cases in NSW to 2,298. There have been 10 deaths in NSW and there are 231 COVID-19 cases being treated by NSW Health, including 43 cases in Intensive Care Units and, of those, 20 require ventilators.

CONFIRMED CASES BY POSTCODE IN THE NORTHERN DISTRICTS

2122 – 24

2113 – 17

2110 – 9

2112 – 8

2119 – 8

2114 – 6

2118 – 6

2115 – 4

2116 – 4

2121 – 3

2111 – 2

Total: 91