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NSW HEALTH INVESTIGATES MORE THAN 15 MYSTERY COVID-19 CASES

New South Wales has recorded seven new cases of coronavirus in the past 24 hours.

Two are returned travellers in hotel quarantine – one from overseas and one from Victoria – while the other five are locally acquired.

More than 19,400 people were tested in past 24 hours.

Premier Gladys Berejiklian says there are still “15 or 16” coronavirus cases which have not been linked to known clusters.

Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant added there was some concern about community transmission in south-west Sydney in particular.

In relation to the security guard who tested positive, the Premier says there is “no evidence to suggest this person did the wrong thing at all”.

She said some jobs and activities carry higher risk than others.

“We know the disease is out there, our job is to find it, isolate it, and stop the spread, it’s 100 per cent fact it’s out there and circulating,” Ms Berejiklian said.

Dr Chant said there are two possible scenarios in which the Sydney Marriott Hotel security guard contracted coronavirus.

The first is “potential overlap” with two people in a room, one of which had the virus and later infected the other.

“We’ve obviously got to explore the infectiousness and the overlap of those, but they were in the same room, and they were moved out of the hotel on the 5th of August,” Dr Chant said.

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