BREAKING Victoria has recorded six new cases of COVID-19, the second consecutive day of single-digit case numbers. No new deaths were recorded in the past 24 hours. The lower case numbers were revealed as queues started to form at a COVID-19 testing sit...
The Shepparton community, about 180km north of Melbourne, is in the midst of a testing blitz after three people tested positive earlier this week. The outbreak wasAs seven cases and no new deaths were announced on Thursday, health authorities urged members of the local community, particularly those who attended exposure sites, to get tested but many spent hours in long lines and were turned away because they were asymptomatic.
About 20 people were queueing at one of the city's testing facilities by 6am on Thursday, two hours before it was officially due to open. This rose to about 100 people by 7am, reported Nine'sLocals interviewed by Nine expressed frustration at the testing delays and the actions of the man from metropolitan Melbourne who did not disclose to contact tracers that he had travelled to Shepparton after visiting Kilmore on September 30.
The Melbourne man went to a hairdresser, ate at a Thai restaurant and visited a tyre shop in Shepparton. The Victorian Health Department has urged the Shepparton community to get tested and then self-isolate for two weeks if they visited one of five hospitality or retail venues in Shepparton. Separately, health authorities have also asked the close contacts of these people to also be tested and self-isolate for 14 days.
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