Hundreds of diners at Thai Rock restaurant in Potts Point in Sydney’s inner east may have been exposed to coronavirus, after a worker at the restaurant tested positive to COVID-19.

The employee worked for 10 days whilst unknowingly being infectious. 

New South Wales health authorities are urgently tracing the source of the infection at the Potts Point restaurant.

The employee worked at the restaurant between 15 July and 25 July. 

Anyone who dined at the restaurant during that time and had been there for two hours or more, is asked to self-isolate and get tested immediately. Diners who spent less than two hours there should be tested if they begin to feel unwell.

Last week we reported that Thai Rock’s sister restaurant at Wetherill Park located to the west of the CBD was the source of 67 coronavirus cases. 

There is no apparent link between the two restaurants at this stage but investigations continue.

Diners at two other NSW restaurants are also being urged to get tested if they feel unwell amid news that an infected Sydney couple had dined at a Bankstown restaurant on 23 July between 9am and 11am and also at Tan Viet Noodle House in Cabramatta on 22 July between 1pm and 2pm. 

As cases grow in the restaurant sector, the NSW Government is determining the point at which new daily confirmed cases would prompt a lockdown.

Irit Jackson, 27^th July 2020