A teenager is being forced to isolate for 14 days after unwittingly entering a south-west Sydney apartment complex locked down by COVID-19.
Police will now guard the building for 14 days to ensure residents do not leaveNine people across five apartments the unit complex on Hill Street, Campsie have tested positive for COVID-19 and all residents are now confined to their apartments for 14 days.
They are not allowed to open their doors except to put their rubbish out, receive food and medicine and for COVID-19 testing.The 14-year-old arrived at the block on Thursday morning to drop a mobile phone to his cousin and said police didn't tell him the building was in lockdown.He now has to quarantine in his cousin's flat for two weeks, without his laptop or a change of clothes.Residents will be regularly tested for COVID-19 and receive welfare checks from NSW Health.
If necessary, people who have tested positive will be transferred to special health accommodation, NSW Health said.Speaking to the ABC via video phone from inside the complex, Shubham said the mix up should never have occurred.He said he felt nervous about being confined to a building where COVID-19 was spreading.His brother Devansh Kant is furious and said police should have had better communication and safety controls."He is 14 and he doesn't have anything [with him].
Earlier this month an apartment block in Liverpool, also in Sydney's south west, was put under police lockdown following a spate of COVID-19 cases.
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