Anyone who has been to the Woolworths in Berala from the 20th of December to the 31st of December is being urged to immediately self-isolate and get tested for coronavirus until a negative result is returned.
The supermarket giant is panicking as it’s believed thousands of shoppers have potentially been exposed to the virus after a staff member is believed to have worked while infectious.
The Woolworths store is physically linked to the Berala BWS store, which is the epicentre of the most recent outbreak.
At least 15 cases of COVID-19 have been linked to the outbreak at the bottle shop, with 188 active cases in NSW at the time of writing.
Acting Premier John Barilaro said on Monday taht the amount of people coming forward for testing was too low and urged Western Sydney residents to be swabbed if they showed the slightest of symptoms.
The government currently wants to see 30,000 to 50,000 tests each day, but the numbers are reported to be much lower.
Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant said that two new cases were reported after 8 pm yesterday and they came from the Berala cluster.
“So just to summarise, the Berala cluster originated from returning overseas travellers and then there was a healthcare worker person who was involved in the transfer of those patients, and then that person passed it on unknowingly to a close contact and that close contact went to the BWS,” Dr Chant said.
“Can I just stress that at the time where the person entered the BWS, they had no symptoms and no reason at all to think they had COVID infection.
“And it really is important that we all bring that to mind that any time we’re out and about, someone could have COVID and that’s why we need those universal precautions of keeping that physical distancing and the mask-wearing, particularly in those indoor settings.”
