NSW COVID cases warning issued to suburbs near Auburn in Sydney’s west after wastewater find

More than 110,000 residents of suburbs across Western Sydney have been issued with a COVID-19 warning.

NSW Health issued an alert on Tuesday after the state’s ongoing sewage surveillance program detected fragments of the virus that causes COVID-19 in the Auburn Sewage Network.

The catchment receives samples from 24 suburbs.

Health authorities acknowledged that while recently recovered cases may continue to shed virus fragments for several weeks, there was “still a risk of COVID-19 spreading…