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New local Covid case emerges in Sydney's east

NSW Health is investigating a case of Covid-19 in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.

The health department said on Wednesday afternoon a man in his 60s had returned a positive test and he will be included in Wednesday's numbers.

He is not a returned traveller but works as a driver which includes transporting international flight crew.

Health authorities are now undertaking genomic testing to determine the source of infection.

A person is tested at a coronavirus testing facility at Bondi Beach in Sydney.
People undergo Covid testing at Bondi Beach in Sydney. Source: AAP

NSW Health also issued a list of venues visited by the man.

Anyone who attended Bondi Junction's Event Cinema's Sunday screening of Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard on Sunday from 1.30-4pm is being urged to get tested and self-isolate for 14 days regardless of the result.

The department issued a list of more possible exposure sites around Bondi and Vaucluse including David Jones and Myer. Anyone who went to these venues is being told to get tested and self-isolate until NSW Health issues more information.

Possible exposure sites

  • Belle Cafe, Vaucluse – Friday, 9.15am-9.50am

  • Sourdough Bakery, Bondi Junction – Friday, 12.40pm-1.10pm

  • Belle Cafe, Vaucluse – Saturday, 10.20am-10.45am

  • David Jones, Bondi Junction – Saturday, 11am-11.40am

  • Myer Bondi, Bondi Junction – Saturday, 11.40am-12.15pm

  • Washoku Vaucluse – Saturday, 12pm-1.30pm

  • Belle Cafe, Vaucluse – Saturday, 1.20pm-1.50pm

  • Belle Cafe, Vaucluse – Sunday, 11.30am-12pm

  • Rocco's, Vaucluse – Monday, 10.55am-11.30am

  • Coles East Village Shopping Centre, Zetland – Monday, 11am-1pm

  • Taste Growers, East Village Shopping Centre, Zetland – Monday, 11am-1pm

  • Wax Car Wash Cafe, Redfern – Monday, 12pm-3pm

  • Belle Cafe, Vaucluse – Tuesday, 9.50am-10.25am

  • Celeste Catering Macquarie Park Cemetery Cafe – Tuesday, 1pm-1.20pm

It follows news late on Tuesday of coronavirus transmission in Sydney’s Radisson Blu quarantine hotel.

A returned traveller, who was staying on the fourth floor of the hotel, is believed to have caught the virus from a couple who were staying on the same floor in an adjacent room.

A customer leaves a David Jones department store in the Westfield shopping centre in Bondi Junction.
David Jones at Bondi Junction is listed as a possible exposure site. Source: AAP (file pic)

All three travellers arrived in Sydney on the same flight from Doha, Qatar on June 1.

According to NSW Health, it is unclear how and where transmission occurred.

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