There have been five new cases of coronavirus in NSW in the past 24 hours.
Two are in hotel quarantine, two are linked to known cases and one is still under investigation and could be a false positive, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said today.
"Worst case scenario we have three community transmissions, in all likelihood its two," Ms Berejiklan said.
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One of the new cases is a healthcare worker from the Concord Emergency Department who was in isolation while infectious. There are 21 cases linked to this cluster.
Another new case attended the Eastern Suburbs Legion Club and they were also in isolation while infectious. There are now nine cases in this cluster.
The third locally acquired case is in a person from the border region of Murrumbidgee. They tested positive in Victoria, but a second test in NSW returned a negative result.
"Whilst we're continuing to treat the case as a positive case we are working through that diagnosis," Dr Kerry Chant said today.
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