Hotel quarantine worker who is the first person to Covid positive test in NSW in 25 days was working in TWO hotels and caught trains to and from Sydney's southwest to the city and then the light rail while infectious
- A hotel quarantine worker in Sydney tested positive to COVID-19 on Wednesday
- The woman has been working at the Novotel and IBIS hotels in Darling Harbour
- NSW Health said urgent genome sequencing is underway find the source
A woman who is the first COVID-19 positive test in New South Wales in 25 days was working at the Novotel and IBIS quarantine hotels in Sydney's Darling Harbour with returned travellers.
NSW Health said urgent genome sequencing is underway to determine whether this is an infection acquired in the community or through working in hotel quarantine.
The woman also travelled a 50km round trip on the train between Minto in Sydney's south-west to Central Station and then used the Light Rail from Central Station to Darling Harbour while potentially infectious.
The new case came just a day after the NSW government announced plans to begin easing social distancing restrictions.
More rules were slated to be scrapped on Monday, December 7, including the no stand-up drinking rule which had badly hurt pubs.
The woman has been working at the Novotel and IBIS hotels in Sydney's Darling Harbour where returned travellers have been staying
The new case comes after NSW began easing more social distancing restrictions following 25 days without any community transmission (Pictured: Gladys Berejiklian)
But Health Minister Brad Hazzard said he doubts the new case will threaten the relaxation of restrictions.
'We're in the middle of a pandemic, one has to expect it,' he said.
'We're doing all the investigations, I've woken up Dr [Kerry] Chant this morning and spoken to her early this morning, we're working through the usual issues.
'We've been doing it for 10 months we're quite confident we'll manage it.'
The woman's five family members, who live in Minto, have returned negative tests.
As a precaution, NSW Health is also conducting wider testing of staff at the hotel complex.
Anyone in the Minto area who have coronavirus symptoms are being asked to get tested (pictured, travellers arriving into Sydney on November 23)
Anyone in the Minto area who has coronavirus symptoms was urged to get tested.
The state was just three days away from officially 'eradicating' the virus, defined as 28 straight days without a locally acquired case.
A similar outbreak in hotel quarantine is what caused the second coronavirus wave in Victoria, which plunged millions into a three month lockdown.
Since the pandemic began, 820 people died in Victoria - the vast majority of the 908 who died across Australia.
NSW Health has asked people who used the same public transport services as the infected woman to get tested immediately and self-isolate, until further advised by NSW Health.
On Wednesday, Gladys Berejiklian announced capacity limits at restaurants, bars, churches and cafes would increase, with the limit of one customer per four-square metres eased to one per 2sqM.
Nightclubs can reopen with up to 50 people allowed on the dance floor at any one time from Monday next week.
Stand-up drinking will be allowed once again, but only in outdoor settings including beer gardens and rooftop bars.
Revellers in pubs and bars will still have to stay seated at indoor venues.
'The rolling back of restrictions across the state is only possible because of the excellent work of the community who have followed social distancing guidelines and continued to come forward for testing,' Ms Berejiklian said.
But hours later New South Wales Health issued an urgent warning Sydney residents living in 12 suburbs after traces of the virus were detected in sewage testing at a water treatment plant.
The warning was raised on Wednesday after health authorities detected the virus in the sewage system that drains Riverstone, Vineyard, Marsden Park, Shanes Park, Quakers Hill, Oakville, Box Hill, The Ponds, Rouse Hill, Nelson, Schofields and Colebee in the city's north-west.
The alert follows a handful of similar discoveries in sewage water across Australia's east coast in recent weeks despite almost non-existent levels of community transmission.
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