Worrying alert for EIGHTEEN new Covid exposure sites in Sydney including supermarkets, cafes and a bank

Worrying alert for EIGHTEEN new Covid exposure sites in Sydney including supermarkets, cafes and a bank – so do you need to isolate?

Eighteen new venues been added to Sydney's burgeoning list of Covid-19 exposure sites, including busy supermarkets, cafes and a ritzy car dealership.

NSW Health announced the new sites on Thursday evening, just hours after the state recorded a worrying 124 new cases.

Greater Sydney is nearing a month in lockdown, with the current status to remain until the previously announced July 30 cut-off - which is all but certain to be extended again.

The list includes a range of venues in Lakemba, Smithfield and Campsie in the city's south-west - the new epicentre of the city's latest outbreak.

Anyone who went to Exim Supermarket, Chemist Warehouse or Traboulsi Bakery in Lakemba on Monday is a close contact and has been told to get a test and isolate for 14 days, regardless of the result.

Pictured: People shopping on Haldon Street in Lakemba on Thursday. The suburb has three new exposure sites

Customers of Tong Li Supermarket in Campsie between Thursday and Saturday should isolate and get a Covid test

Customers of Tong Li Supermarket in Campsie between Thursday and Saturday should follow the same advice, along with people who went to All Parts Auto in Smithfield on Wednesday.

Durable Kitchens Factory in Marrickville is also on the list, as well as Mercedes Benz Sydney in Alexandria - both in the city's inner-west.

Residents infected with Covid also went to two venues in Belrose this week, including Woolworths Glenrose Village and Three Beans Cafe.

Anyone who has been to Woolworths in Fairfield Heights or Bonnyrigg has been told to isolate until they receive a negative test.

Glenrose Village in Belrose is also on the exposure site list. Anyone who went to the Woolworths should get a test

The commonwealth bank in Bondi Junction is also on the list of exposure sites

The same advice applies to Freshness 4 Less and Aldi in Fairfield, along with Glenrose Village Shopping Centre in Belrose between a range of times from Saturday through to Thursday.

Patrons at the Commonwealth Bank in Bondi Junction on Thursday have also been asked to isolate until they return a negative test.

Likewise for three venues in Haymarket, including Tong Li Supermarket, Paddy's Market, and Beijing Tong Ren Tang.

Anyone who went to Choice Pharmacy in Eastern Creek on Tuesday has been given the same advice, along with Green Valley Woolworths in Hinchinbrook, Valley Fresh in Green Valley and Pentonzi in Roselands.

Pictured: Chemist Warehouse in Lakemba, where someone with Covid went on Saturday and Monday

A Mercedes Benz car dealership in Alexandria is also on the list of Covid exposure sites

The same applies to customers of Shell Coles Express in Parramatta.

The New South Wales Premier announced 124 new cases on Thursday morning, with a worrying 48 infectious in the community and 57 have still yet to be linked to known clusters.

Without being drawn into exact numbers, Ms Berejiklian said the situation was fluid and would be determined based on community transmissions and exposure venues.

'Getting out of depends very much on.. if people have been infectious in the community at a low stage where there wasn't a lot of people around' she told reporters.

'But that's why we need to get that number infectious in the community as close to zero as possible because that then allows us to have a degree of confidence that aren't unchecked chains of transmission.'

Gladys Berejiklin said Sydney would likely still be in lockdown after July 30 - when it was due to lift

The 124 cases were detected from 85,185 tests to 8pm on Wednesday night, the most conducted in a single 24-hour period in NSW during the entire pandemic.

The spike in cases is the highest during Sydney's latest outbreak; the last time there were this many infections found in NSW in one day was during the first wave in April 2020.

Premier Berejiklian described the highly-infectious Delta variant as 'scary' and said 'nothing about this gives you comfort'.

She identified ongoing discussions as to what will happen following the current July 30 lockdown date, but did admit the record levels of testing will almost certainly lead to even higher cases Friday.

NEW NSW VENUES ON COVID ALERT

Anyone who attended the following venues is a close contact and must get tested and isolate for 14 days regardless of the result:

Smithfield: All Parts Auto, Wednesday July 14 from 8:15am - 9:15am

Campsie: Tong Li Supermarket, Thursday July from 8:45am - 7:45pm, Friday July 16 from 8:45am - 7:45am and Saturday July 17 from 8:45am - 7:45pm

Lakemba: Exim Supermarket, Monday July 19 from 8:50pm - 9:10pm

Lakemba: Chemist Warehouse, Saturday July 17 from 4:20pm - 4:40pm and Monday July 19 from 3:10pm - 3:25pm

Lakemba: Traboulsi Bakery, Monday July 19 from 3:30pm - 3:45pm

Marrickville: Durable Kitchens Factory, Tuesday July 13 from 7:30am - 4pm, Wednesday July 14 from 9:55am - 4pm, Thursday July 15 from 8:55am - 7pm and Friday July 16 from 7:30am - 7pm

Alexandria: Mercedes Benz Sydney, Wednesday July 14 from 11:25am - 11:50am

Belrose: Woolworths Glenrose Village, Tuesday July 20 from 7am - 2:30pm and Wednesday July 21 from 7:00am - 1:30pm

Belrose: Three Beans Cafe Glenrose Village, Monday July 19 from 6:50am - 7am, Tuesday July 20 from 6:50am - 7am and Wednesday July 21 from 6:50am - 7am

Anyone who attended the following venues is a casual contact and must get tested and isolate until a negative result is received:

Bondi Junction: Commonwealth Bank, Thursday July 15 from 1:45pm - 2:15pm

Eastern Creek: Choice Pharmacy, Tuesday July 13 from 1:45pm - 2:00pm

Hinchinbrook: Green Valley Woolworths, Thursday July 15 from 6:45pm - 7:15pm

Green Valley: Valley Fresh, Saturday July 17 from 2:45pm - 3:20pm

Haymarket: Tong Li Supermarket, Monday July 18 from 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Haymarket: Paddy's Market, Wednesday July 14 from 5:00pm - 6:00pm and Thursday July 15 (all day)

Haymarket: Beijing Tong Ren Tang, Friday July 16 from 3:30pm - 4:00pm

Roselands: Pentonzi, Saturday July 17 from 11:00am - 11:10am

Parramatta: Shell Coles Express, Wednesday July 14 from 4:30pm - 5:00pm

NSW Health wishes to advise of updated and additional times of previously announced venues of concern. Anyone who attended the following venue at the times listed is considered a casual contact and must immediately get tested and isolate until a negative result is received:

Belrose: Glenrose Village Shopping Centre (anywhere but the Woolworths), Saturday July 10 from 8:30am - 4:30pm, Thursday July 15 from 7:30am - 9:00am and 5:30pm - 6pm, Friday July 16 from 5:55am - 4:30pm, Saturday July 17 from 5:55am - 4:10pm, Sunday July 18 from 5:55am - 4:30pm, Monday July 19 from 5:55am - 4:30pm, Tuesday July 20 from 6:50am - 2:30pm and Wednesday July 21 from 6:50am - 1:30pm

Fairfield Heights: Woolworths, Sunday July 18 from 6:00pm - 6:45pm

Bonnyrigg: Woolworths, Sunday July 18 from 11:30am - 12:25pm

Fairfield: Freshness 4 Less, Saturday July 17 from 4:55pm - 5:05pm

Fairfield: Aldi, Saturday July 10 from 3:15pm - 4:05pm