NSW has recorded three new locally acquired coronavirus cases; two linked to the Berala cluster and one linked to a known northern beaches case.
Key points:
- NSW recorded three new local cases of coronavirus, and three in returned travellers
- Two cases are linked to the Berala cluster, one to the northern beaches
- Premier Gladys Berejiklian thanked the northern beaches community after it reopened today
There are now 23 cases linked to the Berala cluster, in Sydney's west, Premier Gladys Berejiklian said.
The new case linked to the Avalon cluster is a close contact of a previously reported case.
There are now 150 cases linked to that cluster.
As the northern beaches reopened today, Ms Berejiklian thanked the community for its response to the three-week lockdown.
However she warned that today's case linked to the area meant residents must not be complacent.
"Today is your first day where you don't have the stay-at-home orders applying to you," she said.
"But the case of community transmission overnight demonstrates that whilst the main threat of those clusters, both the Avalon cluster and then the related Berala cluster, the main threat has to some extent subsided, we're still mopping up and that's why all of us have to be on high alert."
NSW Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant said the next fortnight was critical to the management of the latest outbreaks, and urged the community to continue turning up for testing.
"We need to maintain those high rates of testing for at least 14 days and I would like to see them sustained beyond that," Dr Chant said.
"But for the next 14 days, it is critical that we mop up any unrecognised chains of transmission."
Nearly 24,000 tests were conducted across the state in the 24 hours to 8:00pm last night.
NSW Health has listed a number of new venues in Sydney's south-west and north-east associated with today's cases as well as bus and train routes in Sydney's south- and inner-west.
The venues affected are at Casula, Bankstown, and Campsie.
More to come.
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