Huge alert for FIFTY THREE new Sydney exposure sites including a major Westfield, multiple supermarkets and a McDonald's - so do you need to isolate?
Sydney is once again on high alert after 53 new Covid exposure sites were revealed on Thursday night, with sites spread from the city's virus-ravaged west to the inner city and eastern suburbs.
Among the sites include the busy Westfield in Parramatta, more than a dozen supermarkets and a McDonald's.
Venues in southwest and western Sydney unsurprisingly feature, including the Liverpool Post Office, Liverpool's Black and White Pharmacy, 7-Eleven at Greenacre, Blacktown Woolworths and Westfield Shopping Centre at Parramatta.
The Kmart inside Westfield Parramatta was also a confirmed exposure site.
Other exposure sites include the Woolworths' at Bonnyrigg and Fairfield Heights as well as Wentworthville and Rooty Hill's Fresh Fruit Market.
The worrying new list of Covid exposure sites came hours after 239 new cases were announced, the highest ever daily total for New South Wales (pictured, a woman in Canterbury-Bankstown on Thursday)
Parramatta Westfield in Sydney's west has been identified by NSW Health as one of 53 new Covid exposure sites
Multiple Woolworths supermarkets at Wentworthville in Sydney's west plus Fairfield Heights and Bonnyrigg outlets were confirmed exposure sites
In a concerning development, McDonald's at Kirrawee in Sydney's south is a confirmed exposure site, as is Bondi's My Flower Man in Sydney's east and Leichhardt's Bakers Delight.
Other venues are Lilyfield's Cafe Lobby, the Canley Heights Pharmacy, the Discount Chemist Centre at Bass Hill, Aldi at Emerald Heights and Priceline Casula.
In addition, Lidcombe's Costco, a Bakers Delight and Pharmacy 4 Less at Bankstown and Woolworths Berala have been identified, as was Leppington Woolworths, Fruit Central at Prestons and Cabramatta Hungry Jack's.
The exposure list also stretched to the NSW south coast, with a Coles Express at Wollongong also on alert.
Latest Covid exposure sites in NSW
Anyone who attended the following venues at the times listed is a close contact and must get tested and isolate for 14 days, regardless of the result.
Campsie Crazy Nonna 60 Charlotte Street. Saturday 24 July 12pm to 9pm. Sunday 25 July 12pm to 4pm
Croydon Ampol 404/410 Liverpool Road. Friday 23 July 10:20am to 10:35am
Camperdown 7-Eleven 2/10 Missenden Road. Sunday 25 July 9:45am to 10am. Tuesday 27 July 6:55am to 7:05am
Campsie Limra Indian Spices 286 Beamish Street. Monday 26 July 12:50pm to 1:10pm
Belfield Mancini's Original Woodfired Pizza 21 Burwood Road. Friday 23 July 12pm to 9pm
Anyone who attended the following venues at the times listed is a casual contact who must immediately get tested and isolate until a negative result is received.
Liverpool Liverpool Post Office 244-250 Macquarie Street. Thursday 22 July 2:20pm to 2:35pm
Liverpool Black and White Pharmacy 337B Hume Highway. Saturday 24 July 1:35pm to 1:50pm
Edensor Park Fred's One Stop Shopping 661-667 Smithfields Road. Saturday 24 July 11:30am to 11:55am
Blacktown Woolworths 17 Patrick Street. Friday 23 July 4:05pm to 4:30pm. Monday 26 July 5:00pm to 5:35pm
Greenacre 7-Eleven 301 Hume Highway & Boronia Road. Thursday 22 July 5am to 5:05am
North Strathfield Aldi 20 George Street. Saturday 24 July 10:30am to 11am
Bass Hill Aldi Bass Hill 753 Hume Highway. Monday 26 July 5:45pm to 6:30pm
Casula Maxi Chickens Casula Shopping Mall. Saturday 24 July 10:25am to 10:30am
Cabramatta Vt Building Materials 41 Chadderton Street. Friday 23 July 10:30am to 11am. Wednesday 21 July 8:50am to 9:15am
Lurnea MediAdvice Pharmacy Shop 1, 63 Hill Road. Saturday 24 July 1:10pm to 1:45pm
Horningsea Park Commonwealth Bank Carnes Hill Marketplace, Corner Kurrajong Road & Cowpasture Road. Wednesday 21 July 12:45pm to 1pm
Horningsea Park KFC Carnes Hill Carnes Hill Marketplace, Corner Kurrajong Road & Cowpasture Road. Wednesday 21 July 1:05pm to 1:20pm
Ingleburn Ingleburn Village Shopping Centre 100 Macquarie Street Wednesday 28 July 5pm to 5:10pm
Lilyfield Cafe Lobby 38 Frazer Street. Saturday 24 July 10:40am to 10:55am
Bella Vista Frangos Charcoal Chicken 29-31 Lexington Drive. Sunday 25 July 2pm to 2:10pm
Lidcombe Costco 17-21 Parramatta Road. Saturday 24 July 11:30am to 12:55pm
Blacktown Kabul Halal Butchery 1/60 Main Street. Saturday 24 July 11:20am to 11:30am
Casula King Ananas Casula Shopping Mall Saturday 24 July 10:15am to 10:25am
Kirrawee McDonalds 559-563 Princes Highway. Monday 26 July 6:20am to 6:30am
Canley Heights Canley Heights Pharmacy 227a Canley Vale Road. Saturday 24 July 12pm to 12:44pm
Canley Heights Dai Thanh Grocery 223B Canley Vale Road. Saturday 24 July 1:15pm to 1:20pm
Canley Heights Yung Lee Tropical Fruits 221 Canley Vale Road. Saturday 24 July 1pm to 1:15pm
Liverpool Udaya Spices 186 Macquarie Street. Saturday 24 July 5:35pm to 5:55pm
Bondi My Flower Man 32a Fletcher Street. Wednesday 21 July 9:15am to 9:25am
Wentworthville Woolworths 326/336 Great Western Highway. Sunday 25 July 12:30pm to 1:15pm
Parramatta Westfield Parramatta - Top Level 159-175 Church Street. Sunday 25 July 1:40pm to 2pm
Woolloomooloo Vizio Cafe 1/52 - 58 William Street. Monday 19 July 7am to 11am
Bass Hill Chemist Discount Centre Shop 33, Bass Hill Plaza, 753 Hume Highway. Tuesday 27 July 5pm to 5:30pm
Rooty Hill Fresh Food Market 56 Rooty Hill Road. Monday 26 July 12:50pm to 1:10pm
Bankstown Bakers Delight, Bankstown Central Shop 372, Stacey Street & North Terrace. Thursday 22 July 9:30am to 11am
Leppington Woolworths Emerald Hills Emerald Hills Shopping Village, 5 Emerald Hills Boulevard. Friday 23 July All day
Parramatta Kmart, Westfield Parramatta 159-175 Church Street. Sunday 25 July 1:45pm to 1:55pm
Emerald Hills Aldi 5 Emerald Hills Boulevarde. Saturday 24 July 3:50pm to 4:25pm
Parramatta Breadtop Shop 5029, 159-175 Church Street. Sunday 25 July 1:50pm to 2pm
Cabramatta Hungry Jacks 401 Cabramatta Road. Thursday 22 July 9:25am to 9:40am
Fairfield Heights Woolworths 186 The Boulevarde. Thursday 22 July 9:30pm to 9:40pm. Friday 23 July 9:25pm to 9:40pm. Sunday 25 July 3:40pm to 3:55pm
Prestons Fruit Central 2 Lyn Parade. Saturday 24 July 2pm to 2:30pm
Wollongong Coles Express 142-148 Corrimal Street. Sunday 25 July 6pm to 6:05pm
Casula Priceline, Casula Mall 38/1 Ingham Drive. Thursday 22 July 4:25pm to 4:45pm
Berala Woolworths 16 Woodburn Road. Thursday 22 July 8:10pm to 9:25pm
Leichhardt Bakers Delight Shop 20, Corner Marion Street and Flood Street. Saturday 24 July 10am to 11am
Bonnyrigg Woolworths 100 Bonnyrigg Avenue. Saturday 24 July 12pm to 12:30pm. Sunday 25 July 2:55pm to 3:05pm
Bonnyrigg Fruit World 100 Bonnyrigg Avenue. Saturday 24 July 12:40pm to 12:50pm
Bankstown Pharmacy 4 Less Bankstown Central, North Terrace Shop SP247. Sunday 25 July 7pm to 8pm
Edmondson Park Oporto Unit 2/1942 Camden Valley Way. Friday 23 July 5pm to 11:30pm
Pendle Hill 7-Eleven 217 Wentworth Avenue (Corner Bungaree Road). Sunday 25 July 2:50pm to 3pm
Cabramatta Woolworths 180 Railway Parade. Friday 23 July 5:45pm to 6pm
Casula Coles Kurrajong Road. Thursday 22 July 4:45pm to 5:15pm
Earlier on Thursday, several venues in Sydney's inner west and inner city were put on high alert after being declared Covid exposure sites.
Locations flagged were a health clinic and an entire apartment complex in inner-city Pyrmont, a bottle shop in the Inner West suburb of Forest Lodge, along with a trendy Annandale bakery.
NSW Health also sent out public health alerts for 14 busy train routes, from Cabramatta in the city's outer west, all the way to Central station in the CBD.
Residents and visitors at the iconic Goldsbrough Apartments in Pyrmont, which overlooks Darling Harbour, have been warned they are now considered casual contacts and must immediately get tested and self isolate until a negative result is received.
Vizio Cafe at Woolloomooloo has been named as one of 53 new Covid exposure sites in NSW
Another venue in Pyrmont also causing concern is the Health Space Clinic which was visited by an infected person on July 23.
Anyone who attended the site between 9:00am to 10:00am on that day is considered a close contact and must immediately get tested and self isolate for 14 days regardless of the result.
It is the same story for shoppers at the Forest Lodge Chambers Cellars Shop who visited on July 24 from 1:45pm to 2:05pm and for anyone who attended Annandale's Booth Street Bakery on July 25 between 2:45pm to 3:15pm.
Following Thursday morning's confirmation of the 239 new case numbers, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian also announced two million Sydney residents living in one of eight hotspot LGAs in the west and south-western suburbs would have to wear a mask whenever they leave home.
Those areas are Canterbury-Bankstown, Fairfield, Liverpool, Blacktown, Cumberland, Parramatta, Campbelltown and Georges River.
From midnight on Saturday morning, residents in those LGAs cannot travel more than 5km from their home for essential shopping or for exercise.
'If you step foot outside your household, you need to wear a mask at all times. It doesn't matter where it is,' the Premier said.
'We're seeing too much evidence of people who are not wearing masks when they need to.'
The McDonald's at Kirrawee in Sydney's south was another confirmed venue by NSW Health
Penalties for not wearing a face mask will increase from $200 to $500, with thousands of police officers deployed across Greater Sydney to enforce the tightened restrictions.
From midnight on Saturday morning, residents in the eight LGAs also cannot travel more than 5km from their home for essential shopping or for exercise.
'These harsh measures are the harshest Australia has ever faced in a lockdown,' Ms Berejiklian said.
'The Delta strain is different to anything we have seen.
'I appreciate whilst all of us are under stress and pressure with the lockdown, if you live in those eight local government areas, we are asking so much of you.'
ALL THE CHANGES TO GREATER SYDNEY'S LOCKDOWN RESTRICTIONS
From 11.59pm on Wednesday July 28:
Greater Sydney residents including the Central Coast, the Blue Mountains, Wollongong and Shellharbour must limit essential shopping trips to within 10km of their homes.
Non-essential workers living in the Parramatta, Campbelltown and Georges River LGAs cannot leave their area for work.
The same rules already applied for residents in Fairfield, Cumberland, Canterbury-Bankstown, Liverpool and Blacktown.
Essential workers leaving Canterbury-Bankstown will need to be tested every three days.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has extended Sydney's stay-at-home lockdown for another four weeks
In Fairfield and Cumberland, only aged care and healthcare workers must be tested every three days.
From 12.01am on Saturday, July 31:
Construction sites can reopen outside the eight LGAs under tighter restrictions.
A singles bubble will be opened - allowing couples to visit each other's homes.
Tradesmen can resume work as long as they do not come into contact with residents. That work will also be banned in the eight LGAs of concern.
From August 16:
Year 12s will return to face-to-face learning and a Pfizer vaccination program will begin in the eight LGAs where transmission of Covid-19 is at its highest.
Rapid antigen testing will also be used for students returning to school across Greater Sydney.
