A Costco superstore is among the 26 new venues added to Sydney's ever-growing list of Covid-19 exposure sites overnight - as revellers in Bondi enjoyed a night out in lockdown next door to a venue already on coronavirus alert.
Sydneysiders are seven days into a 14-day lockdown to curb the spread of the highly-infectious Indian Delta variant of the virus - with the city recording 35 infections on Saturday.
Health authorities on Saturday night told anyone who visited the Strathfield Medical Practice in the city's inner-west on July 1 between 1.30pm and 2.10pm to get tested and self-isolate for 14 days regardless of the result.
Shoppers who visited a Costco in Casula in the city's south-west on June 29 between 7.50pm and 9pm meanwhile must get tested and self-isolate until they receive a negative result.
The rise in cases is the largest daily increase since April 2020 when Australia was enduring the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic.
But with residents unable to dine inside at venues, bars and pubs can instead serve customers drinks on the street as long as punters then move on and don't enter the premises.
Crowds of locals were pictured enjoying drinks on the street in Bondi Beach on Saturday night as bars made the most of the concession in lockdown rules for licenced venues.
One bar had a list of cocktails hanging on its shopfront and was offering espresso martinis, margaritas and negronis.
Daily Mail Australia understands the bars were offering the alcohol for customers to drink while they walked up and down the waterfront to prevent transmission of the virus.
A large crowd were pictured queuing outside Mexican restaurant Calita on Campbell Parade on the northern end of the beach.
The Porch and Parlour cafe and ceramics shop directly next door though is listed as an exposure site by New South Wales Health between 7.50am and 8.10am on Monday June 28.
Bondi locals have enjoyed a night out despite it being in the middle of a lockdown thanks to the takeaway booze and cocktails on offer from several bars and restaurants in the area. Licenced venues can offer alcohol to be consumed away from their premises under Sydney's lockdown rules
Some venues were dubbed 'kerbside bars' and had been preparing cocktails all day - with locals encouraged to collect a drink as they headed home or while they were out getting their daily exercise.
Daily Mail Australia is not suggesting anyone pictured is breaking any social distancing laws.
Health authorities meanwhile have also on Saturday night told shoppers at the Coles store in Westfield Parramatta in western Sydney and an Aldi in Lakemba in the south-west they were exposed to the virus on June 30.
A group of Sydney residents are seen hanging outside a Bondi bar on Saturday night after taking advantage of the venue's takeaway alcohol
Many bars and restaurants in the area are selling alcohol for locals to drink while they walk, as they are allowed to do under Sydney's lockdown restrictions
Some venues had been preparing cocktails all day, with locals encouraged to collect one as they head home or go for their daily exercise. The Porch and Parlour cafe and ceramics shop in Bondi Beach is directly next door to one kerbside bar, Calita. The cafe is a listed Covid-19 exposure site
The Porch and Parlour cafe is listed as an exposure site by New South Wales Health between 7.50am and 8.10am on Monday June 28
A group of girls are seen waiting outside a bar in Bondi on Saturday night to make the most of lockdown rules allowing takeaway alcohol service in New South Wales
Saturday's cases are the highest number of infections recorded in a single day since the initial outbreak in 2020 but NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and her Chief Health
