Police shut down two secret Sydney parties and slap 13 men with $1,000 fines for breaching the public health order - as Meriton suites Covid cluster surges to 35

Two illegal parties have been shut down with 13 men slapped with $1,000 fines amid Sydney's lockdown - after 50 new cases were reported.

Police deputy commissioner Gary Worboys revealed 167 Greater Sydney residents were given personal infringement notices in the past 24 hours including 67 in the city's south-west.

Officers were called to a home in Randwick, in the eastern suburbs due to a noise complaint and caught eight men having a secret house party.

'Eight infringement notices were issued and that party was shut down and those people left that house,' Mr Worboys said.

Two illegal parties have been shut down with 13 men slapped with $1,000 fines amid Sydney's lockdown - after 50 new cases were reported (pictured police patrolling Bondi Beach)

At The Entrance in the Central Coast, another five people were caught at an illegal gathering and were hit with a $1,000 fine each.

There were 72 people fined for failing to wear masks and 96 for leaving home without a reasonable excuse. 

'When people invite others to their house, it is a conscious decision to go against the public health order and put the health of themselves, those people in their home and their community, their family, at risk,' the commissioner said. 

Mr Worboys also warned police would be out in full force across the city asking residents why they were out of their homes. 

'Over the next few days, police will continue their efforts right across this state, to the farest places where people think they can escape Sydney and go on a holiday and again disguise that as some sort of business trip or some sort of activity - police are investigators,' he said.

'Police will ask questions, they will find out the truth, and if you need to be issued an infringement notice, they will.' 

Police deputy commissioner Gary Worboys revealed 167 Greater Sydney residents were given personal infringement notices in the past 24 hours including 67 in the city's south-west (pictured women wear face masks while walking through an empty Barangaroo)

Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant has meanwhile announced the cluster of cases linked to an illegal party at the Meriton Suites in Waterloo has jumped to 35 infections.

Ten further infections were linked to the gathering which was held on the first day of the city's lockdown on June 26.

'I think what we are seeing is chains of transmission and we are having difficulty getting ahead of those chains,' she said.

'We need everyone to stay hunkered down this weekend, stay within your household, and if anyone in your household has the most minimal of symptoms get tested.'

From the 50 new cases announced on Saturday, Premier Gladys Berejiklian said 'most concerningly' there were 26 active cases in the community

From the 50 new cases announced on Saturday, Premier Gladys Berejiklian said 'most concerningly' there were 26 active cases in the community, and added too many residents were 'cutting corners' and 'flouting the rules'.  

She also hinted that the Greater Sydney lockdown, which is entering its third week, is likely to be extended as case numbers skyrocket.

'I think it is pretty clear that unless we reduce that level of people in the community that are infectious, we won't be able to turn things around as quickly as we can or as quickly as we should,' the premier said.

Dr Chant said there are 47 people currently in hospital being treated for the virus with 16 in intensive care including a teenager, a person in their 20s and person in their 30s.

Of the 47 in hospital, 37 were unvaccinated. No one that has been double vaccinated is currently in hospital. 

The teenager currently suffering from the virus in ICU is not on a ventilator.  

There were 38 new cases announced Thursday and 44 Friday, both the highest days recorded since the start of the pandemic.

Saturday's figure deepens the growing crisis with the highly-infectious Delta strain. 

Police are seen patrolling Bronte Beach amid strict stay-at-home orders on Greater Sydney