A staff member at the Crossroads Hotel in south-west Sydney tests positive for COVID-19, while travellers returning to New South Wales will have to pay $3,000 for their fortnight stay in hotel quarantine from next week.
A third COVID-19 case has emerged from a busy pub in south-west Sydney, with an 18-year-old male staff member testing positive.NSW Health is recommending self-isolation for everyone who went to the pub between July 3 and 10NSW Health has broadened its advice around the outbreak at the Crossroads Hotel in Casula, urging anyone who visited the pub between July 3 and 10 to self-isolate and get tested.
The man has since been linked to three positive cases among members of his household in the Blue Mountains.NSW Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant said it was vital that people who visited the pub between July 3 and 10 come forward for testing, whether they had symptoms or not."Even if you get a negative test, that does not mean you are out of the woods and hence we are asking that you isolate yourself for 14 days since you were last at the Crossroads Hotel," she said.
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