A security guard who contracted coronavirus at a Sydney quarantine hotel has been fined twice by NSW Police for failing to isolate after his test.
Key points:
- Two security guards have tested positive for coronavirus after working at a quarantine hotel
- One of them has subsequently been fined for failing to self-isolate
- There were three new coronavirus infections confirmed in NSW in the 24 hours to 8.00pm yesterday
The 22-year-old guard was tested after working at the Sydney Harbour Marriott, where another guard had earlier tested positive for the virus.
Police allege the man failed to self-isolate after he was swabbed.
A public health alert has now been issued for Westfield Burwood and the nearby Service NSW centre, which the man visited after having his test.
Health authorities in NSW confirmed three new coronavirus infections in the 24 hours to 8:00pm yesterday.
Two of those are in hotel quarantine, while the third was an employee at Liverpool Hospital who was a close contact of a previous case.
NSW chief health officer Kerry Chant said the security guard who was fined was not particularly infectious.
"Further testing has indicated his level of infectiousness at that time was very low and it is unlikely we are going to be able to isolate any virus from his samples given that low level of infectiousness," she said.
He was the second security guard to test positive after working at the Marriott.
Dr Chant said it was difficult to tell if the two infections were linked.
NSW reached a testing milestone yesterday, with more than 2 million swabs taken since the start of the pandemic.
A total of 20,720 COVID-19 tests were completed in the 24 hours to 8.00pm yesterday, taking the state's total to 2,016,293.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian urged people in Sydney's west or south-west to get tested if they have symptoms.
Those areas remain the main locations for new infections in NSW.
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