A North Sydney childcare centre has been closed for thorough cleaning after a staff member tested positive for Covid-19.
The staffer who tested positive of the Coronavirus at Reddam Early Learning Centre at Lindfield worked for three days from August 25 to 27 while unknowingly infectious.
The staff member is a household contact of a case linked to the growing CBD cluster.
The outbreak in the heart of the city had grown to 29 infections.
Over the weekend police kept an eye on social distancing at beaches as warm weather enticed people to the water.
This comes as a Sydney bus route, a popular gym, and a pub are the latest subjects of urgent public health warnings.
Commuters that boarded the same Sydney bus as the two confirmed COVID-19 cases have been told to immediately self-isolate.
Passengers on the X39 bus that left Pitt Street opposite Australia Square at 6.08 pm on August 20 and arrived at Randwick’s Clovelly Road at Carrington Road at 6.40 pm are considered close contacts.
They all must isolate until midnight on September 3 and be tested for COVID-19 regardless of symptoms.
A previously reported case linked to Sydney’s CBD cluster took the bus as did a second passenger who was confirmed as having the virus on Friday.
In another alert, people who attended Highfield Caringbah pub for more than two hours from 6 to 8.30 pm on August 22 are also being told to immediately isolate and seek testing.
People who attended the City Tattersalls gym in the Sydney CBD between 8 am and 2 pm on August 19, 21, 23, 24, and 25 are also now considered close contacts and must isolate themselves and get tested immediately.
One new case is among returned travelers in hotel quarantine while a student at a Christian College in western Sydney has also tested positive.
St Paul’s Catholic College in Greystanes will be shut on Monday for cleaning, NSW Heath said on Sunday.
Authorities are also investigating the source of an infection acquired by a staff member at the Surry Hills Police Cells Complex.
Meanwhile, three Sydney schools that closed on Friday after staff members contracted the virus will reopen on Monday.
They include Homebush Public School, Double Bay Public School, and Ryde Secondary College.
There are 66 active COVID-19 cases in the state, including six who are in intensive care, of whom three are on ventilators.
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