Nick Evans tested positive for coronavirus in late July after only having mild hay fever symptoms of a runny nose and dry eyes.

"I didn't think much of it," he said. "It was more my wife Lauren who encouraged me to get tested because she was working in health care and needed to know for her work.

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"I had been working from home and hadn't really been out anywhere so I didn't think I had anything. So I was really shocked and a bit surprised when I did test positive."

Mr Evans said he believed his case was connected to the St Joseph's Primary School COVID-19 cluster in Quarry Hill as his daughter attended the school.

There were 16 coronavirus cases linked to the school, including three teachers and 11 students.

Mr Evans said the messaging around that outbreak had been unclear.

"There was probably some misguided information coming from the school but also via DHHS and Bendigo Health," he said. "We were getting mixed messages from each group.

"That was probably the tricky thing to handle. The messaging was not great coming out of the school and it probably caused more panic than anything else.

"Given it was a public health emergency, that lack of public health information didn't give anyone linked to the school any clarity.

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"Once the Bendigo Health team took over the local contact tracing the messaging got a bit clearer.

"There was a contact point and that was where the frustration was initially - there was no one to contact to ask questions."

Mr Evans' two daughters and wife were also tested several times for coronavirus but they never returned a positive test.

Mr Evans moved out of the house during the weeks he was contagious. He also contacted any of his potential close contacts so they would isolate and get tested.

"I had been in contact with a couple of people from work and we had been to a family friend's house so they all had to be contacted," Mr Evans said.

"But thankfully no one else that I was in contact with over that period was a confirmed case.

"I just felt a bit inconvenient that I had to tell others and they had to isolate for that period of time."

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Mr Evans was cleared of the virus after the two-week infectious period. He said there weren't any lasting coronavirus symptoms.

"Thankfully there has been nothing," he said. "I feel pretty normal. I had no real symptoms during it. It was more just that hay fever-type symptoms - no cough or sore throat or anything."

While he only had a mild case of COVID-19, Mr Evans said people should still take the virus seriously.

"I didn't have any lasting effects or bad symptoms at the time, but that's not to say others haven't had worse symptoms than I did," he said.

"We have to be vigilant. There are cases in NSW and they're worried that could spike again.

"So we just have to be vigilant going forward and not forget what we've gone through because we don't want to go through it again."

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