Huge new list of Covid exposure sites across Sydney including a Bunnings, a Woolworths and the SAME pub at the centre of last year's nightmare outbreak - as more than 6million people are plunged into two-week lockdown starting NOW
EXPOSURE SITES ANNOUNCED SATURDAY EVENING
Potts Point: Café de la Fontaine - Sunday June 20, 10.30am – 12.00pm
Annandale: Revolver Café - Sunday June 20, 10.45am and 12.10pm
Coogee: Churrasco - Sunday June 20, 5.30 pm to 6.40pm
Gregory Hills: Woolworths - Sunday June 20, 3pm to 3:30pm
Double Bay: Matteo Restaurant and Bar - Sunday June 20, 6.30pm to 8.00pm
Hurstville: H One Hair Salon - Tuesday June 22, 5.30pm to 6.30pm
Bondi Beach: Speedo Fitness Club – pool area only - Tuesday June 22, 4.45pm to 6.15pm
North Ryde: Macquarie Shopping Centre food court (Level 2) - Wednesday June 23, 2pm to 2.30pm
Casula: Crossroads Hotel - Wednesday June 23, 7pm to 10.30pm
Burwood: Yang's Dumplings - Thursday June 24, 11am to 11.30am
In addition another five casual contact sites were also added to the list of the latest hotspots.
Anyone who attended any of the following venues at the listed times is a casual contact and must immediately get tested and self-isolate until a negative result is received.
Bondi Junction: Five Star Hot Food - Tuesday June 22, 1.40pm to 1.55pm
Bondi Beach Speedo Fitness Club – fitness centre or classes - Tuesday June 22, 4.45pm to 6.15pm
Denham Court: Coles - Wednesday June 23, 9.50am to 10.20am
Randwick: Bunnings Randwick cnr Clovelly Road and Kemmis Street Wednesday 23 June 9am to 9.30am
Chullora: Woolworths Chullora Marketplace Chullora Marketplace, 355 Waterloo Rd Thursday 24 June 7.30am to 8.00am
Anyone who attended the following venues at the times listed must monitor for symptoms and immediately get tested and self-isolate if they develop:
Bondi Beach: Bondi Pharmacy, 81 Hall Street - Friday June 18, 1:35pm to 2:45PM
Premier Gladys Berejiklian said a crisis cabinet meeting would be held on Saturday, and foreshadowed the seven-day lockdown - which began overnight - could be expanded to more local government areas in Sydney
Urgent alerts have been put out for another 17 new Covid exposure sites, including popular restaurants, a beachside gym and a Bunnings store as six million people are forced into lockdown.
The growing number of venues also includes another Woolworths and the same pub that was at the centre of a previous outbreak.
The alert for Great Ocean Foods in Marrickville has now been extended to take in all day every day from Monday June 21 until Friday June 25.
The Crossroads Hotel in Casula has again been named a high-risk exposure site and anyone who attended the pub on Wednesday June 23 from 7pm to 10:30pm must immediately be tested and self-isolate for 14 days.
In July last year a Melbourne freight worker visited the pub for a party, which resulted in at least 34 cases. He claimed he didn't know he was sick.
Churrasco restaurant in Coogee, Speedo Fitness Club in Bondi Beach and hair salon in Hurstville were also included in Saturday evening's latest exposure drop.
Any person and their household contacts who attended or directly received a delivery from Great Ocean Foods on those days must immediately call NSW Health, get tested and isolate.
Ten more locations were also added to the close contact list and anyone at these locations during the affected times must immediately get tested and isolate for 14 days, regardless of the result.
Stay-at-home orders will apply to all of Greater Sydney including the Blue Mountains, Central Coast, and Wollongong areas from 6pm on Saturday and will be in place until midnight on Friday July 9.
Locals are only allowed to leave their houses for four reasons, which include for school or work if unable to do so from home, medical reasons including to get the vaccine and to give care, for essential shopping and to exercise outside in groups of no more than ten.
'There is no curfew. You can leave your home at any stage to purchase any essential goods that you need to and that is a given. Be thoughtful and considerate about fellow citizens and no need to panic buy,' Ms Berejiklian said on Saturday during a media briefing.
'I said that this the scariest time since the pandemic started and that's proven to be the case.'
Regional NSW will follow restrictions that were previously placed on Sydney which include having only five visitors at a house, wearing masks indoors, hospitality venues reduced to one person per square metre and outdoor venues reduced to 50 per cent capacity.
'So for those parts of New South Wales that aren't in lockdown, restrictions still apply because we want to make sure that if there have been any occasions where people unknowingly have taken the virus outside into the regions, that we don't have any spread in those regions,' Ms Berejiklian said.
Weddings will be able to go ahead over the weekend but will be banned from Monday.
Funerals can continue with a maximum of 100 guests and masks indoors while community sport will also be shut down over the next fortnight.
Shops will remain open and financial assistance will be available.
The Crossroads Hotel in Casula has again been named a high-risk exposure site and anyone who attended the pub on Wednesday June 23 from 7pm to 10:30pm must immediately be tested and self-isolate for 14 days
The Churrasco restaurant in Coogee has been listed as a high-exposure site by NSW Health
Sydney residents were undaunted by the new stay-at-home-orders, soaking up the sun on an unusually warm late-June day on Saturday. Pictured: Woman on Coogee Beach on Saturday
The Sydney CBD is almost completely deserted as residents are plunged into lockdown with health authorities warning it could be extended
The premier stressed with the current situation a three-day lockdown would not have worked but said restrictions may change if there's a dramatic drop in numbers over the next week.
'If we're going to do this, we need to do it properly. There's no point doing a 3-day and then having the virus continue to bubble away in the community,' she said.
NSW Health has turned its attention to the 40-storey Elan building in the heart of Kings Cross with all 500 residents being tested and forced to isolate after a confirmed case within the complex
'Now, if after seven days there's a dramatic change in the trend, we'll obviously evaluate the situation.
'We're finding that all household contacts, unfortunately, are getting the virus. Transmissibility is at least double what previous variants had been.
'So we do need to brace ourselves for potentially larger number of cases in the following days and that's why it's so important that we take action now.'
Ms Berejiklian said the outbreak of the Indian 'Delta' strain left health authorities with no other choice but to impose the hard lockdown - but warned the worst is yet to come.
'I'm as disappointed as everybody else about what we've had to do but we've only done it because we absolutely had to,' she said.
'The best advice from health is that we should brace ourselves for additional cases. Because the contact tracers have done such a good job in identifying potential cases and their close contacts, just from those numbers alone and how transmissible the virus is, we know that the numbers will go up in the next few days.
'So I just want everybody to brace themselves. Not to be scared because we're taking the right advice, we're doing the right things. But the best advice we received today is that it will take two weeks.'
Sydney's famous Opera House cuts an eerie picture with the area completely deserted after the NSW Government introduced a two-week lockdown for Greater Sydney
A woman wears her mask as she walks down Newtown's King Street on Saturday morning, hours before the area enters a two-week lockdown
The premier said residents should start preparing for the lockdown to extend (pictured Sydney residents exercising on Saturday)
EXPOSURE SITES ANNOUNCED SATURDAY MORNING
Great Ocean Foods, 5/11 Cadogan St, Marrickville - June 21 to June 25
Anyone who worked in, attended or was a customer at the Ocean Foods business during this time must get tested along with their household contacts and isolate for 14 days.
Those who received a delivery during this time must get tested along with their household contacts and isolate until further notice from NSW Health
Anyone who attended the following venues must get tested along with their household contacts and isolate for 14 days regardless of the result
Sydney Cheers Bar & Grill on George Street - June 20 from 1.45am - 3.30am
Anyone who attended the following venues must get tested and isolate until they receive a negative result
Rebel Sport at Bankstown Shopping Centre, North Terrace, - June 24 from 3.45pm - 4.30pm
Paloma Espresso Café on Shelley Street in Sydney - June 21 from 1.50-2.10pm
Casula Oporto in Casula Central Shopping centre - June 22 from 12.50 - 12.55pm
Pasta Italia Cucina at Casula Central Shopping Complex - June 22 from 12.50pm - 1.10pm