A bar in Bondi appears to have been the site of significant COVID-19 infection after 10 cases were linked to the Sydney venue.
NSW Health has issued an alert on Friday saying the Tea Gardens Hotel is a “transmission venue of concern”.
The authority has determined the 10 cases were either infectious when they visited on Saturday, October 23, or caught the virus on that date.
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“People who attended the Tea Gardens Hotel, Bondi, on 23 October from 7.30pm until closing are considered casual contacts and must immediately get tested and isolate until a negative result is received,” NSW Health tweeted.
“People who attended earlier in the day should monitor for symptoms.”
Earlier this week, the authority revealed City Gym in Darlinghurst was linked to 15 cases, sparking officials to warn of the risk of transmission at indoor venues.
NSW Health’s Jeremy McAnulty said the “likely transmission” in high-risk indoor venues was a reminder to maintain COVID-safe behaviours at all times.
“It’s important that we all use masks when indoors,” McAnulty said on Saturday.
Even fully-vaccinated people should come forward for testing if they experience symptoms, he said.
Vaccination is “very effective” but not perfect, and breakthrough infections can still occur, McAnulty warned.
NSW recorded 268 new locally acquired COVID-19 cases and two more deaths on Friday, with more than half of them detected outside Greater Sydney.
In the 24 hours to 8pm on Thursday, there were 54 positive tests returned in the Hunter New England Local Health District, 52 in the Murrumbidgee area and 13 on the state’s Mid North Coast, with additional cases in the Illawarra Shoalhaven region and Southern NSW.
By the numbers
An unvaccinated woman in her 90s died at a Tarrawanna aged care facility, north of Wollongong, where she acquired her infection, and a man in his 70s died at an Albury aged care facility in Albury, where he acquired his infection.
He had received one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
There have been 566 COVID-19 related deaths in NSW since the start of the pandemic.
There are 363 people hospitalised with the virus - 80 in intensive care and 32 requiring ventilation.
Some 93.5 per cent of NSW residents over 16 have received at least one vaccine, with 87 per cent fully vaccinated.
- With AAP