NSW Health authorities are focusing their investigation on a Sydney indoor climbing gym as the number of Omicron cases grows.
Key points:
- Students from Regents Park Christian School visited the gym in November 27
- The school has a cluster of 13 cases
- NSW recorded 325 cases and one woman died of COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 8pm last night
The gym was visited by a group of school students from the Regents Park Christian School, which has 13 cases of COVID-19, three confirmed as the Omicron variant.
Urgent testing is underway on the remaining 10.
Anyone who was at the gym on Saturday, November 27 between 9am and 4.30pm is considered a close contact and must get tested and isolate for seven days.
A student who had not been overseas and had no links to anyone who had was confirmed as the school's first case on Thursday.
Health authorities fear this is a sign the Omicron COVID-19 variant is spreading in the community, with a total of 13 cases with the variant in NSW.
The western Sydney school has now been closed for the rest of the year and all staff and students have been identified as close contacts.
NSW has recorded 325 new locally acquired COVID-19 cases, and a woman aged in her 50s from south-western Sydney has died at Liverpool Hospital.
The woman was fully vaccinated but had underlying health conditions, NSW Health confirmed.
NSW Health said 94.6 per cent of people aged 16 and over have received a first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, and 92.7 per cent are fully vaccinated.
Almost 70,000 people were tested to 8pm last night, compared with 80,930 on the previous day.
Yesterday Health Minister Brad Hazzard said the outbreak was concerning, as the virus appeared to have been transmitted in the community.
"I think transmission is always a concern but we need to keep it in perspective at the moment," he said.
"Worldwide, there is not clarity around whether this particular variant is going to cause us anywhere near the problems that the earlier variants caused us."
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Two new cases in returned travellers who were confirmed to be affected by the Omicron variant were the parents of a child with the variant.
The family travelled on Qatar Airways flight QR908 from Doha to Sydney on November 23.
The family had not travelled to southern Africa, prompting NSW Health to suspect transmission occurred on the flight.
A number of venues visited by the family in Chatswood on Sydney's lower north shore have been listed as exposure sites.
Three Omicron cases have been identified in passengers on a flight from Singapore to Sydney on November 28.
Every person who was on the Singapore Airlines flight has been asked to get tested immediately and isolate until they receive a negative result.
Positive Omicron cases have also been identified in passengers on two other Qatar Airways flights from Doha, which landed on November 25 and 27 respectively.
Anyone who has been in South Africa, Lesotho, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Namibia, Eswatini and Malawi 14-days before arriving in NSW must go into hotel quarantine for 14 days, irrespective of their vaccination.
Those who have visited any of the eight African countries within the previous 14 days must get tested and isolate for 14 days, and call NSW Health.
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