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CORONAVIRUS testing will be scaled back in Bendigo and Kyneton from Monday.
The Bendigo Showgrounds and Kyneton Showgrounds sites will finish up at the close of business on Sunday.
Drive-through and walk-in testing will still be available at Bendigo's McLaren Street site from 8.30am to 5.30pm.
Priority testing will be available for healthcare workers, pre-operation patients, and truck drivers via the walk-in clinic.
These people must make themselves known to security staff and bring work ID or relevant pre-operation documentation.
Kyneton Health will operate its usual testing sites from Monday.
About 1000 people were tested for COVID-19 in Bendigo at the weekend, while 250 people were tested at the Kyneton Showgrounds.
"We encourage people to monitor the Department of Health exposure site website and get tested if they have COVID-19 symptoms or have visited a known exposure site," a Bendigo Health spokesperson said.
Update, 8.50am
VICTORIA has recorded more than 700 new COVID-19 cases.
The 779 new locally-acquired coronavirus cases take the state's active case tally to 8011.
A further 46,322 people were tested for the virus on Saturday, while 34,280 vaccines were administered.
Another two Victorians with COVID-19 have died.
Earlier
A NUMBER of new exposure sites have been listed in Greater Bendigo.
The following places have been listed as tier two exposure sites:
- Coles Lansell Square - September 21 between 4.05pm and 4.45pm
- McDonalds, 582-586 Napier Street, White Hills - September 20 between 6pm and 7.30pm
- BP Epsom, Midland Highway, Epsom - September 23 between 5.50am and 6.25am
- White Hills Fish Shop, 539 Napier Street, White Hills - September 22 between 5pm and 6pm
- Lake View Hotel Bendigo, 204 McCrae Street, Bendigo - September 17, 18, 19, 21 between 6pm and 7pm
Anyone who visited those sites during the exposure times should urgently get tested, then isolate until confirmation of a negative result.
Some people who attended the venues will be considered tier one contacts. Contact tracers will notify those people directly.
A V/Line construction site in Goornong has also officially been listed as a tier one exposure site.
A COVID-positive person was at the Mulcairs Lane Railway Crossing site between 6.15am and 6.30pm from September 18 to September 23.
Three people who were working at the site tested positive to COVID-19 on Saturday.
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COVID commander Jeroen Weimar confirmed the cases were connected to the V/Line contractor who returned a positive test last week.
Case data from the Department of Health website showed there was one new coronavirus case listed in the Greater Bendigo local government area on Saturday, with two active cases in the region.
There were also three new cases in the Mount Alexander Shire (four active cases in total) and three new cases in the Macedon Ranges Shire (15 active cases in total).
There will be coronavirus testing available at the following locations on Sunday:
- Bendigo Showgrounds (drive-through) between 8.30am and 5.30pm
- McLaren Street (walk-in) - healthcare workers, pre-operation tests, and truck drivers can go between 8.30an and 10am; it will be open to the general public from 10am to 5.30pm
- Kyneton Showgrounds (drive-through) between 8.30am and 5pm
The full list of exposure sites can be found at coronavirus.vic.gov.au/case-alerts-public-exposure-sites/
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Tara Cosoleto
Journalist covering courts and general news at the Bendigo Advertiser.
Journalist covering courts and general news at the Bendigo Advertiser.
