Goulburn Valley Health have issued the following COVID-19 update. Due to new COVID-19 positive cases overnight, it is of utmost importance to to come forward and get tested if you have COVID-19 symptoms.
Positive cases
There have been additional cases of people testing positive for COVID-19 late yesterday/overnight in Shepparton. Further information will be provided today.
Priority testing
There is a high demand for COVID-19 testing at present related to the Shepparton outbreak. At this time there is likely to be over 17,000 people requiring testing and this will increase as more exposure sites are added. Daily testing capacity is in the order of 3,500 and additional resources have and are being mobilised.
Anyone with COVID-19 symptoms should urgently be tested and are the priority groups for testing today. This will allow the public health teams to understand more quickly what is occurring in this outbreak.
We are asking for the cooperation of community members to allow priority access to testing sites in Shepparton for people who have symptoms of COVID-19.
People who do not have COVID-19 symptoms and have been to an exposure site should remain in quarantine and present for testing from lunchtime Wednesday.
If you do not have symptoms of COVID-19 and are in a queue for testing at the moment, please leave the queue to allow priority access to testing for people that have symptoms.
We have created social media tiles about today's priority testing ('Testing Tuesday') – see attached below. Please share and encourage as many people to come forward to be tested if they have symptoms.
'Stop & Stay' clarification
Stop & Stay means get tested and stay in quarantine. This applies to the primary close contact and household members. At this time, you should expect to stay in quarantine for 14 days.
