Coronavirus clinics in Sydney's inner-west are inundated with people keen to get swabbed after a nearby Woolworths supermarket was yesterday closed when a staff member tested positive for COVID-19.
He then travelled to Sydney on Jetstar flight JQ510 on June 26 and started working at the store, where a manager encouraged him to be tested again after noticing he had symptoms.Mr Hazzard urged anyone who visited the Balmain Woolworths on either June 27 or 28 and had flu-like symptoms to be tested for coronavirus.
In the 24 hours to 8.00pm yesterday, there were no new cases of coronavirus found in NSW, despite 17,848 people being tested.Meanwhile, police in NSW are tightening controls at the Victorian border amid a spike of coronavirus cases in Melbourne.
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