Dozens of new Covid exposure alerts have been released for Sydney, featuring busy supermarkets, two Bunnings stores and 12 different buses.
Of most concern to contact tracers is the food court on Level 1 of Blacktown Westpoint shopping centre, as well as Dr Lagaida General Practice in St Mary's.
The bumper list of sites comes as New South Wales recorded 262 new cases of the virus on Thursday, with a new lockdown brought in for the Hunter region.
Health authorities have warned anyone who attended Blacktown Westpoint Food Court level on July 29 between 3:00pm to 5:30pm is considered a close contact and must immediately get tested and self isolate for 14 days regardless of the result
Greater Sydney is now in the midst of its sixth week of lockdown. Pictured: Bondi Beach on August 5, 2021
Health authorities have warned anyone who attended Blacktown Westpoint Food Court level on July 29 between 3:00pm to 5:30pm they are considered a close contact and must immediately get tested and self isolate for 14 days, regardless of the result.
It is the same story for patients are staff who visited Dr Lagaida General Practice in St Mary's, also in Sydney's west over a two-day period.
Those in attendance on July 31 from 10:00am to 12:30pm and on July 30 between 11:30am to 2:30pm are also considered close contacts.
Also raising fears after the record-high number of cases in the state, is 12 busses which have hit with close contact alerts.
The public transport routes stretch right across Sydney from the western suburbs to the CBD and inner city.
Although the greater Sydney region is currently in the midst of its sixth week of lockdown, the exposure alerts keep spiralling, particularly in the city's Covid-ravaged west.
Blacktown Woolworths (pictured) was listed as a Covid exposure site on August 5, 2021
There were three casual contact alerts issued in Aurburn with the Afghan Traditional Bakery, Sunshine Fruit at the busy Auburn Central Shopping Centre and the Auburn Emergency Department Auburn Hospital waiting room all flagged.
Anyone who visited the venues during the listed times must immediately get tested and self isolate until they receive a negative result.
Blacktown was hit with four of the same public health alerts while Merrylands received seven.
Two Bunning's hardware stores were added the growing list in Jamisontown and Lidcombe
Chullora Coles and Aldi were flagged along with four Woolworths supermarkets in Blacktown, Granville, Wentworthville and Toongabbie.
A busy BWS liquor store in Spring Farm was issued an alert, while shoppers who attended Merryland's Stockland Shopping Centre and Westfeild Paramatta were also told they are now casual contacts.