Coronavirus: Bankstown Central shopping centre COVID-19 alert
Shoppers at Bankstown Central shopping centre are being advised to monitor for symptoms after a positive COVID-19 case visited the centre.
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Bankstown Central shopping centre in Sydney’s southwest has been placed on alert after a person who tested positive for COVID-19 visited the centre.
NSW Health is urging anybody who visited the shopping mall on Saturday, August 8 between 10am and 3pm to monitor for symptoms, and self-isolate and get tested immediately if they appear.
Authorities have also issued an alert for Sydney Market in Flemington after a previously reported case attended the venue on Sunday, August 9 between 8am and 4pm.
It comes as three new cases were reported in the last 24-hour reporting period, with 13,736 tests conducted.
Of the new infections, two in southwest Sydney were locally acquired and one was a returned traveller in hotel quarantine.
One of the locally acquired cases is a close contact of a previously reported case linked to the Bankstown and Fairfield funeral gatherings cluster, which has grown to 73.
NSW Health are investigating the source of infection for the other locally acquired case and contact tracing is underway.
Community members, particularly in western and southwest Sydney, are being urged get tested immediately if cold or flu-like symptoms appear and to not assume it is the common cold or influenza.
“Even though daily case numbers are low, there have been 16 cases in the last four weeks whose source is not identified or linked to clusters, mainly in western and southwestern Sydney, indicating that COVID-19 is continuing to circulate in the community, undetected,” a NSW Health spokeswoman said.
“It is vital to maintain high rates of testing at this critical time, in order to find the source of these cases still under investigation.”