The cluster linked to Concord and Liverpool hospitals has ballooned to 12 cases with five more people connected to the outbreak diagnosed with COVID-19.
Nine new cases were recorded in the 24-hours to 8pm on Tuesday, including one mystery case, and one returned traveller.
Concord Hospital has been shut to visitors due to COVID-19 cases linked to the facility.Credit:Kate Geraghty
It comes as Premier Gladys Berejiklian announced the state has the capacity to manufacture ventilators, an important park of intensive care treatment.
NSW Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant said two healthcare workers, one patient and two household contacts of the patient were the latest cases linked to Concord Hospital.
Non-urgent surgery at Concord has been cancelled until Friday and visitors are banned until 10am the same day so deep cleaning can be done.
"Investigation into the cause of these infections is ongoing," Dr Chant said.
Despite foreshadowing there will continue to be new cases linked to Concord Hospital, Dr Chant said people should absolutely attend that hospital if they needed to.
Two more cases have been linked to the Tattersalls CBD cluster, taking that outbreak to 68.
The first locally-made ventilators will be produced in NSW in a couple of months, and the Premier said they were on track to receive regulatory approval in a few weeks.
“If needed, [they] can be produced for hospitals here and potentially overseas, saving lives and boosting jobs,” Ms Berejiklian said.
Health Minister Brad Hazzard said the ventilators could be the difference between life or death for COVID-19 patients.
“In some of the worst-hit nations, health staff were forced to choose who got access to a ventilator; so we need a reliable local supply chain to safeguard NSW patients,” he said.
In NSW, three of the six patients in intensive care with COVID-19 were also on ventilators.
People who attended the following three venues in the city for more than an hour have been directed to self-isolate for 14 days after those places were visited by COVID-19 cases:
- The Crocodile Farm Hotel in Ashfield on September 4 between 5.30 and 6.30pm;
- The New Shanghai Night restaurant in Ashfield on September 4 between 6.30pm and 8pm;
- Albion Hotel, Parramatta Beer Garden and Pavilion, on September 5 between 8.15pm and 11.15pm.
People who attended several shops at Macquarie Shopping Centre between 2 and 5pm on Saturday are considered casual contacts and asked to monitor for symptoms.
Anyone who caught the North Shore Line train on September 7 between 9.17 and 9.29am from Milsons Point to St Leonards and between 9.53 and 10.14am from St Leonards to Milsons Point have also been asked to monitor for symptoms and get tested if they develop mild symptoms.
Dr Chant urged people to come forward for testing, with 20,852 tests recorded in the latest reporting period.
A pub in Sydney's inner-west was the first to be shut down by the Office of Liquor, Gaming and Racing, and also fined $10,000, for repeatedly breaching COVID-19 restrictions.
The Unity Hall Hotel at Balmain will be closed for a week after it was caught hosting two birthday parties and failing to follow its COVIDSafe plan one day after receiving a penalty notice for a restrictions breach.
Ms Berejiklian warned patrons to be careful when going out and consider using your own pen or pencil when signing in to venues.
More to come
Rachel Clun is a journalist at The Sydney Morning Herald.
Mary Ward is a reporter at The Sydney Morning Herald.
Tom Rabe is Transport Reporter with The Sydney Morning Herald.
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