On Monday, NSW recorded 112 cases, of those 84 were from south-western Sydney. The overall new cases announced on Monday is more than triple the highest daily case number seen during the city’s Crossroads or Avalon clusters last year.At Fairfield Showground’s drive-through COVID-19 clinic, St Vincent’s Hospital’s pathology unit SydPath director of operations Greg Granger said while it was great to see the community coming forward for testing, he is concerned about the increasing cases.
SydPath nurse Petra Vieco gives Chhorng Nty, 8, a COVID-19 test, watched by his sister Sivmey Nty, 15, at the Fairfield Showground on Monday.Each of the children closes their eyes as the swab went up their nose. Around them, the SydPath staff share a kind word or a joke to lighten the mood.Jason Grima and his two children came forward for testing after being notified on Monday morning that they had been at the Fairfield Coles at the same time as a positive case.
Daily testing dropped slightly on Sunday after quadrupling in some parts of the Fairfield area over the previous five days. In the Abbotsbury-Bossley Park-Edensor Park statistical area, testing increased from 208 swabs in the 24 hours to 8pm last Tuesday to 832 on Saturday, before dropping to 543 in the 24 hours to 8pm Sunday.
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