An apartment block in Sydney's south-west is locked down after a COVID outbreak among its residents. NSW Health today confirmed there were nine cases across seven units.
An apartment block in Sydney's south-west has been locked down after a COVID outbreak among its residents.Nine positive cases have been confirmed at the Campelltown apartment blockNSW Health today confirmed there were nine cases across seven units at The Emerald building on Warby Street in Campbelltown.The other two were in Bondi Junction and Blacktown.
"We actually received an email from our building manager yesterday to advise us that there were some families within the building that had tested positive to COVID-19 and that is the only information we were given," she said. "We are instituting further testing and control measures in relation to that apartment complex as we understand how transmission occurred," she said.
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