Coronavirus Nepean Blue Mountains: How many cases are in your postcode?
New data reveals exactly how many positive cases of COVID-19 are in your postcode, and when the virus first spread to the Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District.
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For the first time, the Press can reveal exactly how many positive cases of COVID-19 have been recorded in your postcode.
The Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District has recorded 90 positive cases up to 8pm on March 31.
New data shows the first person in the health district with a confirmed case was a person from either Castlereagh or Cranebrook on March 4.
The second case was from the postcode 2777 on March 7, followed three days later by another case in the same postcode.
The district has had at least one confirmed case every day since March 12, with the highest number coming on March 24 when 19 people tested positive.
The postcode 2745, which includes the suburbs Regentville, Mulgoa, Wallacia, Glenmore Park, Glendale, and Luddenham has recorded 11 cases, as has the postcode 2756, centred on Windsor in the Hawkesbury.
Postcode 2750 is next hardest hit, with nine cases reported across Penrith, South Penrith, Leonay, Emu Plains, Jamisontown, and Emu Heights.
St Clair and Erskine Park (2759) have recorded eight combined cases, as has the postcode 2760, which includes St Marys, Colyton, and Oxley Park.
Castlereagh and Cranebrook (2749) have six cases between them, while the postcode 2747, comprising such suburbs as Kingswood, Llandilo, Werrington, and Jordan Springs, has also recorded six cases.
Three postcodes have each recorded five positive cases: 2753 (Centred on Richmond in the Hawkesbury), 2777 (Springwood, Hawkesbury Heights etc.) and 2780 (Katoomba, Leura, and Medlow Bath).
Hazelbrook (2779) has recorded three positive cases, while North Richmond (2754), Kurrajong (2758), Blaxland (2774), Glenbrook (2773), and Lawson (2783) all have two cases.
All other postcodes in the area have either zero or one confirmed case.