Eleven new COVID-19 cases have been diagnosed in NSW overnight – all acquired in Australia.
The source of one case – a woman in her 60s from south-west Sydney – is under investigation, adding to the growing number of people who have tested positive for coronavirus with no known links to active clusters or confirmed cases.
Contact tracers are racing to track down these elusive chains of transmission that indicate the virus is spreading among the communities of Sydney and Newcastle.
The new mystery case reported on Friday follows concerning news that three men in their 20s – infected with COVID-19 by unknown sources – visited 17 pubs, restaurants, and supermarkets between them in Sydney’s CBD, inner west, south-west and Newcastle areas within a 48-hour period over the weekend.