COVID-19 NSW: Latest updates, suburb breakdown for Sydney cases

A map has revealed the devastating spread of COVID-19 since the emergence of the Avalon cluster last month. New cases are now far and wide across the city and beyond. SEE THE MAP.

Nurses were seen testing Sydney residents for COVID-19 at the Killara pop up drive-through testing clinic on Sydney's north shore. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gaye Gerard

A map of active COVID-19 cases reveals just how far the virus has spread since the fateful Avalon cluster outbreak just weeks before Christmas.

NSW recorded no new locally acquired COVID-19 cases overnight in promising signs the outbreak is not spiralling out of control – but with less than 9000 tests returned Premier Gladys Berejiklian has implored residents to keep getting tested.

There were six new locally acquired COVID-19 identified over the weekend, all of which were in Auburn and connected to the Berala cluster in Sydney’s west.

Five of the cases were household contacts of a previously identified case and the sixth was a close contact of the same person.

A new venue alert has also been issued for clients who attended a western Sydney medical centre last week.

NSW Health advised that anyone who attended Wentworthville Medical and Dental Centre on January 15 from 11.30am to 1.15pm – including the dental, physio and imaging waiting room – is a close contact of a known COVID-19 case.

Anyone affected must immediately get tested and self-isolate for 14 days regardless of whether they receive a positive or negative result.

Anyone who was in other areas of the clinic is urged to monitor for symptoms and immediately isolate and get tested if they materialise.

Fragments of COVID-19 were also detected at a Glenfield sewage treatment plant, prompting NSW Health to encourage Macarthur and Liverpool region residents to get tested at the first sign of virus symptoms.

A nurse is seen with testing equipment at the Warringah Aquatic Club pop up drive-through testing clinic. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gaye Gerard

NSW Health is yet to uncover how the virus re-entered the state after several weeks without community transmission.

While the outbreak originated in Sydney’s northern beaches, the infections have now well and truly broken the northern beaches boundaries and spread into Sydney’s suburbs.

Shoppers at Woolworths Berala on Sunday. Picture: Jenny Evans/Getty Images

NewsLocal’s COVID-19 postcode map reveals a western Sydney postcode has overtaken Avalon in the number of active cases – once the hardest hit suburb by far with 61 cases emerging from the initial outbreak.

Avalon is now on the cusp of becoming COVID-free once more with just seven active cases remaining, while Auburn has 10 active cases.

Bondi Beach on Tuesday. Picture: Monique Harmer

The eastern suburbs and inner city have 11 cases between them, while the inner west – initially beset with fears over a Croydon COVID cluster after Christmas – now has seven cases in total.

The Sutherland Shire now has just one active case in Cronulla, identified prior to Christmas in the days after a COVID exposure at Cronulla RSL associated with the Avalon cluster.

Over the bridge in St George there is just one case in the Oatley and Mortdale area.

Drivers queuing for COVID-19 tests at the Prestons drive-through clinic after a COVID exposure at Casula Mall. Picture: Jonathan Ng

Sydney’s southwest, including Canterbury-Bankstown, Liverpool, Fairfield and Macarthur has 13 cases between them.

A number of cases have now become COVID-free altogether, including Fairlight, Collaroy, Denistone, Blacktown, Hunters Hill, St Ives, Brooklyn, Kurraba Point, Asquith and Kings Cross.

TOP NINE HARDEST HIT SUBURBS

Auburn: 10 cases

Avalon: seven cases

Westmead, Greystanes, Wentworthville: seven cases

Warriewood: six cases

Canterbury: six cases

Berala: six cases

Macquarie Fields: five cases

Casula: four cases

Croydon: four cases

FULL LIST OF ACTIVE CASES

Sydney’s northern beaches

Avalon: seven locally acquired cases

Warriewood: seven locally acquired cases

Narrabeen: two locally acquired cases

Bayview: two locally acquired cases

Mona Vale: two locally acquired cases

Currawong Beach: two locally acquired cases

Cromer, Dee Why: one locally acquired case

Allambie: one locally acquired case

Sydney’s north

Eastwood: three locally acquired cases

Chatswood: two locally acquired cases

Kellyville: one locally acquired case

Lane Cove: one locally acquired case

Cammeray: one locally acquired case

Frenchs Forest: one locally acquired case

Sydney’s east and inner city

Paddington, Moore Park: three locally acquired cases

Bondi, Tamarama: three locally acquired cases

Woollahra: one locally acquired case

Waterloo, Zetland: one locally acquired case

Rose Bay: one locally acquired case

Edgecliff: one locally acquired case

Sydney’s inner west

Croydon: four locally acquired cases

Balmain: two locally acquired cases

Glebe, Forest Lodge: one locally acquired case

Strathfield: one locally acquired case

Sydney’s west

Auburn: 10 locally acquired cases

Westmead, Greystanes, Wentworthville: seven locally acquired cases

Berala: six locally acquired cases

Birrong, Regents Park: three locally acquired cases

Rooty Hill: two locally acquired cases

Parramatta, Harris Park: one locally acquired case

Acacia Gardens, Quakers Hill: one locally acquired case

Guildford: one locally acquired case

Bungarribee: one locally acquired case

Sydney’s southwest

Canterbury, Ashbury, Hurlstone Park: six locally acquired cases

Macquarie Fields: five locally acquired cases

Casula, Chipping Norton: four locally acquired cases

Georges Hall: three locally acquired cases

Campsie: three locally acquired cases

Revesby: one locally acquired case

Belmore: one locally acquired case

Sydney’s south

Cronulla, Bundeena, Maianbar: one locally acquired case

Oatley, Mortdale: one locally acquired case

Sydney’s outer regions

Coniston, Gwynneville, Keiraville: three locally acquired cases

Ettalong Beach: two locally acquired cases