A mother-of-two who is locked inside a Bondi apartment complex after eight residents tested positive to Covid-19 says the children in the building are going 'crazy' - and she's not even allowed to take her garbage out.
Dozens of people living in the 29 units on Botany Street in Sydney's eastern suburbs were plunged into isolation on Saturday after people across five households returned positive test results amid the city's outbreak, which grew by 89 on Tuesday.
One frustrated occupant who is now banned from leaving home for two weeks wrote a note on their window: 'Where is the vaccine?'
Chief health officer Dr Kerry Chant said on Monday that the source of the infection has been identified and those with the virus have been evacuated to a medical facility so they don't spread it - but residents say they haven't been told.
A local mum who lives in the high-rise with her husband, toddler and newborn and said she only found out how many people in the building had the Delta variant by watching the news - two days after they were all thrown into isolation.
'We were contacted by the building strata manager on Saturday to say there was a Covid case in one of the units, and not to leave the house,' she told Daily Mail Australia.
One frustrated resident who is banned from leaving the block for the next two weeks wrote 'where is the vaccine?' on their window
Pictured: A woman waves at photographers from inside her apartment. People from 29 units have been banned from leaving
Pictured: The apartment complex on Botany Street in Bondi, which has been completely locked down
Two more stern emails arrived over the next few hours instructing all residents not to leave the building under any circumstances - the last of which was from NSW Health letting them know nurses would be coming through and swabbing occupants.
Squads of nurses arrived at about 7.45pm on Sunday and started testing everyone. They will be tested again on Saturday.
'I spoke to someone from the Public Health Unit on Sunday and they told me there were multiple cases inside
