Thousands of essential workers in Sydney's Covid outbreak ground zero are ordered to have a test every THREE days if they work outside the area By Sam McPhee For Daily Mail Australia Published: 02:59 BST, 13 July 2021 | Updated: 03:01 BST, 13 July 2021 Viewcomments New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian has ordered anyone living in Fairfield in Sydney's south-west must be tested every three days if leaving their home for work. Ms Berejiklian announced in a press conference Tuesday morning workers who live in the Fairfield local government area in Sydney's south-west - a Covid-19 hotspot - must get tested for the virus every three days if they are leaving their home for work. She said anyone moving from Greater Sydney into regional NSW for work should also get a weekly test, even if they don't have symptoms. 'The Health Minister and I did sign a new health order which will ask anybody who leaves the Fairfield local government area for work is tested every three days to demonstrate they are negative,' the NSW Premier said. 'If you happen to have people on your worksite or people overseeing work or any type of activity in your private residence or commercial premises, please ask where they live and if they live or come from that area, hotspot area, please ask when the last time was that they got tested.' New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian has ordered anyone living in Fairfield in Sydney's south-west must be tested every three days if leaving their home for work Police officers patrol the streets of the Fairfield local government area in Sydney's south-west Suburbs in Sydney's south-west with younger residents have become Australia's Covid epicentre (pictured, Fairfield), 30km from the city centre Ms Berejiklian also said there will be new mandates for people moving around Greater Sydney to work, with people being told they must be tested weekly if crossing over LGAs. 'It will also apply to people working in the regions. We will ask people working or moving between greater metropolitan Sydney and into the regions to get a weekly covert tests even if they don't have symptoms, just to make sure that they reduce the incidence of essential workers passing on the virus,' she said. 'We do appreciate that for many citizens, conducting essential work is what all of us rely on, but we just cannot afford to have the virus spread through that essential work and we need to make sure that people keep everybody else free.' New South Wales' Covid-19 outbreak has grown by another 89 local cases on Tuesday, health officials confirmed A woman wearing a face mask in Bankstown on Monday morning, where police have ramped-up patrols to enforce Covid-19 compliance New South Wales' Covid-19 outbreak has grown by another 89 local cases as authorities confirmed a man in his 70s has died from the virus. But in a glimmer of hope the state could be turning the tide on its latest outbreak of the highly-contagious Delta variant, only 14 cases are unlinked to known clusters - down from 48 mystery infections from Monday. Of the new local cases, 30 were out in the community for either part of or their entire infectious period. Share or comment on this article: All rights reserved for this news site (dailymail) and under his responsibility