Dozens of residents locked up under police guard in 'hunger games' Bondi apartment block that's already had eight positive cases across five families reveal the hellish conditions inside - as one writes note begging: 'Where is the vaccine?'

A mother-of-two who is locked inside a Sydney apartment complex after eight residents tested positive to Covid-19 says the children in the building are going 'crazy' - and she's not even allowed to take her garbage out.

Dozens of people living in the 29 units on Botany Street, Bondi in Sydney's eastern suburbs were plunged into isolation on Saturday after people across five households returned positive test results amid the city's outbreak, which grew by 89 on Tuesday.

One frustrated occupant who is now banned from leaving home for two weeks wrote a note on their window: 'Where is the vaccine?'

Another resident penned a note that read: 'Send beer.'

Chief health officer Dr Kerry Chant said on Monday that the source of the infection has been identified and those with the virus have been evacuated to a medical facility so they don't spread it - but residents say they haven't been told. 

A local mum who lives in the high-rise with her husband, toddler and newborn said she only found out how many people in the building had the Delta variant by watching the news - two days after they were all thrown into isolation.

'We were contacted by the building strata manager on Saturday to say there was a Covid case in one of the units, and not to leave the house,' she told Daily Mail Australia.

One frustrated resident  who is banned from leaving the block for the next two weeks wrote 'where is the vaccine?' on their window

Pictured: A woman waves at photographers from inside her apartment. People from 29 units have been banned from leaving

Pictured: A note that reads 'send beer' in the window of a Bondi apartment block where eight Covid cases have emerged

Pictured: The apartment complex on Botany Street in Bondi, which has been completely locked down

Two more stern emails arrived over the next few hours instructing all residents not to leave the building under any circumstances - the last of which was from NSW Health letting them know nurses would be coming through and swabbing occupants.

Squads of nurses arrived at about 7.45pm on Sunday and started testing everyone. They will be tested again on Saturday.

'I spoke to someone from the Public Health Unit on Sunday and they told me there were multiple cases inside the building, but I found out how many cases there were by watching the news,' the mum explained.

Each floor of the complex has about four apartments each, which she said means the virus spread throughout multiple floors - probably through common areas, like the elevator. 

But again, residents are frustrated because they say they haven't been given any information.  

Daily Mail Australia has contacted NSW Health for comment. 

Pictured: A health worker leaving the apartment complex, where eight residents tested positive to Covid-19

Police have been swarming the entrance to the apartment block, which occupants say is onimous

Pictured: A man wearing a face mask outside the apartment complex on Botany Street in Bondi

Elsie is 74 and has lived in the building since 2002, and is deeply concerned about contracting the Delta variant.

She is also worried the building was not locked down fast enough, and described the situation to Daily Mail Australia as 'awful'. 

'We were told not to leave our homes on Sunday, but we could all still hear the elevator going - it was delivery people coming and going with food, before the place had been deep cleaned,' she said.

Elsie says she did manage to find out that someone with the virus entered the block and infected two people on July 6, but she doesn't know how it spread to multiple floors of the building. 

'Who brought the infection in? Where do they work? Will they bring it back again? These are the things we need to know,' she said.

The woman called authorities to let them know people were coming and going - and suddenly police were stationed at all entrances.

Pictured: Police and health workers carrying equipment inside the Covid-addled apartment block

Police have been stationed outside the block to ensure no one leaves or goes inside

Chief health officer said residents who are considered close contacts were ordered to quarantine at home for 14 days

She also said there was a communication breakdown after the cases were confirmed, and not everyone knew the building had been locked down.

One Filipino woman cares for an elderly couple living in one of the units, and arrived at the building on Monday like she always does, only to be told she was not allowed to leave.

She is now stuck living with the elderly couple for two weeks before she can go home and phoned Elsie because she didn't know what else to do.

Meanwhile, the mum-of-two said the heavy police presence outside is 'a confronting sight'.

'Not everyone is happy about it, but I think it's necessary - one case in the building is one too many, but it's day three - we're going a bit crazy.'

Residents have been forced to leave piles of garbage on their balconies because they're not allowed to take them out to the communal bins. 

When there is a food delivery, police leave it inside the entrance to the building and contact the recipient to collect it - ensuring only one person is in a communal area at one time.

On Monday, Dr Chant told reporters that residents who are considered close contacts were ordered to quarantine at home for 14 days. 

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'This is a reminder of the risk that Covid poses and why we were requiring masks… in indoor common property areas of residential premises and also discourage social gatherings or any gatherings across household groups in those apartment buildings as well,' she said. 

'Even if you're going to get your waste disposal, other points of contact, please see that as a risk as well and please make sure you have got your mask affixed and you keep that social distancing.' 

On Tuesday it was confirmed that a 70-year-old man from the eastern suburbs - the same area as the apartment complex - has died from Covid-19. 

But in a glimmer of hope the state could be turning the tide on its latest outbreak of the highly-contagious Delta variant, only 14 cases are unlinked to known clusters - down from 48 mystery infections from Monday.

Police officers patrol the streets of the Fairfield local government area in Sydney's south-west

A woman wearing a face mask in Bankstown on Monday morning, where police have ramped-up patrols to enforce Covid-19 compliance 

Of the new local cases, 30 were out in the community for either part of or their entire infectious period. 

There are are still 21 patients in the state's intensive care units suffering from Covid-19; four are on ventilators. 

'More than three quarters of all of those cases of community transmission were close family contacts,' Premier Gladys Berejiklian said.

'It reinforces the message that every time you risk going outside and doing the wrong thing, you risk bringing the virus home to those you love the most.'

Ms Berejiklian on Tuesday also announced that workers who live in the Fairfield local government area in Sydney's south-west - a Covid-19 hotspot - must get tested for the virus every three days if they are leaving their home for work.

She said anyone moving from Greater Sydney into regional NSW for work should also get a weekly test, even if they don't have symptoms.