A string of new venues has been added to Victoria and New South Wales' growing list of exposure sites, with Covid outbreaks around the country sending more than 13 million into lockdown.
Among the venues in Victoria exposed to the virus include a warehouse, a popular Aldi and a busy coffee shop, while in NSW a popular Coffs Harbour pub is also affected.
The country town of Orange in regional NSW has also been thrown into a week long lockdown after the virus spread from a pet food driver making a delivery from Greater Sydney to a local.
Along with Orange, South Australians have been ordered to stay at home for seven days while in Victoria the state's fifth lockdown has been extended for another week.
There seems to be no end in sight for Greater Sydney's lockdown while there are also now fears of an outbreak in Queensland after a woman tested positive having arrived from Melbourne.
A string of new venues have been added to NSW and Victoria's growing list of exposure sites while Covid outbreaks around the country send more than 13 million into lockdown (pictured pedestrians in Covid struck Liverpool in Sydney)
The Hoey Moey pub in Coffs Harbour (pictured) was exposed to Covid on Thursday July 15 between 3.55pm and 4.20pm, while initially only the bottle shop had been listed as an exposure site
The Aldi supermarket in Beaconsfield in Melbourne was also exposed to the virus and was added to Victoria's swelling list of affected venues on Tuesday night
The Hoey Moey pub in Coffs Harbour was exposed to Covid on Thursday July 15 between 3.55pm and 4.20pm, while initially only the bottle shop had been listed as an exposure site.
Several other venues were added to NSW Health's relentlessly growing list on Tuesday night, including two Woolworths stores, one in Sydney's Belrose and another in Chester Hill.
The new exposure sites in Victoria come after the state recorded 13 new infections on Tuesday.
The BR International Logistics warehouse in Derrimut in Melbourne's west, is believed to have been exposed by an infected resident all day for a week.
Those who attended the venue anytime from July 13 to July 19 must isolate for 14 days from the day they were exposed, regardless of a Covid-19 test result.
A woman is seen walking her dog in Melbourne on Tuesday. Victoria is in the midst of its fifth lockdown
The BR International Logistics warehouse in Derrimut in Melbourne's west, is believed to have been exposed by an infected resident all day over a period of seven consecutive days
Pop-up cafe and arts store Status Quo Pop-up in Richmond was exposed by an infected resident over four days between July 14 and July 17.
Those at the store between 8am to 3pm on any of those days are required to get a Covid test and isolate until a negative result.
The Sloane Ranger cafe in Cremorne has also been listed on July 14 from 8:25am to 9:10am and July 15 from 8.25am to 9.05am.
Meanwhile the Aldi in Beaconsfield has been put on alert for shoppers who attended the supermarket on July 17 between 1:30pm and 3:00pm.
Victoria's lockdown was scheduled to end at midnight but has been extended for another seven days until midnight July 27.
Victoria's lockdown was scheduled to end at midnight but has been extended for another seven days until midnight July 27 (pictured Melbourne residents wait to get a Covid vaccine)
The country town of Orange (pictured) has now been plunged into a seven-day lockdown
This is Victoria's fifth lockdown since the pandemic hit Australia's shores early last year and the third one so far in 2021.
'We want to avoid a long, lengthy challenging lockdown where you lose control of cases, we have avoided that, but we need more time,' Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews said.
He also reinstated a hard border with NSW and ordered a temporary pause on the issuing of 'red zone' permits.
Almost a third of Victoria's locally-acquired coronavirus cases can be traced back to a fan who attended an AFL game, a Euro 2020 viewing party, and a rugby match while unknowingly infectious.
That man caught the virus from a resident of a Maribyrnong apartment complex who got it from unmasked Sydney removalists, then went on to spread it to friends and family.
Twelve of Tuesday's cases are linked to the outbreaks of the Indian Delta variant in the state, which originated in NSW, and one case is under investigation.
There appears to be no end in sight for Sydney's lockdown as the city enters its fourth week of tough restrictions (pictured, an eerily quiet George Street on Tuesday)
South Australia has also entered a seven day lockdown after a total of five infections were recorded (pictured, testing in Adelaide on Tuesday)
But an extra week of lockdown in Victoria is unlikely to be enough to quash an outbreak of the Indian Delta coronavirus variant, an epidemiologist says.
Based on modelling by Monash University and his own progression data, University of South Australia academic Adrian Esterman believes local Covid-19 cases will not drop to zero
