Towns in north-west Victoria face a nervous wait to see whether they will record their first-ever COVID-19 infections as residents and a popular business in Wycheproof were warned they may have been exposed to the virus. covid19 pandemic regionalVic...
Towns in north-west Victoria face a nervous wait to see whether they will record their first-ever COVID-19 infections as residents and a popular business in Wycheproof were warned they may have been exposed to the virus.
Ms Durie said there were four staff, including herself, working at the bakery when the confirmed case visited the business. It was fortunate the person had visited near closing time rather than a busier time of day, she said.“When we heard there was a man [with COVID-19] just in Mildura we were pretty nervous,” she said. “A lot of our trade goes between Melbourne and Mildura.”
By Monday afternoon in Mildura there were 11 exposures sites, nine of them tier 1. The second COVID-19 case was a household contact of a man who contracted the virus at a football game at the MCG. Ms Cupper said there was a major shortage of Pfizer vaccine in the region and she had been unable to book an appointment for a jab despite being eligible.
“In fact, we’ve added to the capacity, which is really important because we want people who’ve got symptoms to get tested,” he said. “We’re not inviting the entire community to get tested as we did with Shepparton last year. We hope it doesn’t get to that; we don’t want people to flood the place.”
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