A new COVID-19 exposure site has been identified in Moree on the same day the town announced additional testing on sewerage fragments had returned a negative result.
Hunter New England Health identified Moree’s Puma Service Station as the venue of concern and said that anyone who attended it on Tuesday, August 24, from 2.20pm to 2.25pm are casual contacts (unless they have been contacted by NSW Health as close contacts) and must get tested and isolate until a negative test result is received.
That announcement came hours after Moree Plains Shire Council issued a statement regarding recent sewerage testing.
Following the detection of COVID-19 fragments in the Moree sewerage system, additional testing done at Sydney Water yesterday has come back with a negative reading the statement said.
“I know there has been understandable anxiety since the first report of traces of COVID-19 in our sewerage and this will come as a great relief to our communities in the Moree Plains, but this must not stop us from being compliant and doing the right thing. I urge you all to get tested, get vaccinated, and follow the stay-at-home rules, where possible,” Moree Plains Shire Council general manager Lester Rodgers said.
Meanwhile, a visiting person to a rural property in the Moree Plains Shire on the weekend had received a positive result to COVID-19 from a test done in their hometown. That person has since left the Moree Plains Shire and any close contacts on the rural property are now isolating and being monitored.
Everyone in Moree is being urged to monitor for symptoms and if they appear, immediately get tested and isolate until a negative result is received.
The sewerage results, the rural property visitor and the new exposure site are all believed to be unrelated.
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