At a conference on Wednesday morning, NSW Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant said there had been eight new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, seven of which were in hotel quarantine.
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The eighth is a woman in in South West Sydney, with the source of her case under investigation.
Dr Chant also reported that a Victorian teenager holidaying in Merimbula had been advised he was COVID-19 positive.
The teenager was not from a hotspot and their family was initially advised, before going on holidays, that their COVID test was negative, Dr Chant said.
"But then when they arrived in NSW they were advised that was an error and the test was positive," she said.
She said the family had visited Tathra Hotel, with 80 other patrons who were in the hotel being contacted by NSW Health.
"Pleasingly, the Tathra Hotel did have a COVID safety plan and the risk to other patrons has been assessed as very low," she said.
With the Premier flagging concerns about non-compliance in hospitality businesses, Minister for Customer Service Victor Dominello made a plea to all businesses to put in place a COVID safe plan, and said the government would be cracking down on compliance in the coming days.
ACM has contacted the Southern NSW Local Health District for comment.
More to come.