Health services have geared up for an increase in testing rates following Bernardi's Marketplace being named as an exposure site.
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NSW Health have announced that a drive through testing clinic is to be established at the showground over the next three days.
The operating times are:
- Friday Sept 3 - 8am to 4pm
- Saturday Sept 4 - 8am to 2pm
- Sunday Sept 5 - 8am to 2pm
"We encourage everyone in the community to come forward for testing and re-testing," a NSW health spokesperson said.
"Widespread, sustained testing is crucial to ensuring we keep our communities safe."
Symptoms associated with COVID-19 include fever, cough, breathing difficulties, sore throat, loss of smell or taste, runny nose, diarrhoea, nausea, vomiting and fatigue.
The testing warning comes after cases in the region hit 23 on Thursday.
DO YOU NEED A TEST?
- All Bernardi's staff members that have been in direct contact with this customer are considered a close contact and have been asked to get a COVID-19 test immediately and self-quarantine for 14 days.
- These quarantine rules also apply to anyone staff share a home with.
- All staff members who were on the shop floor during this time are required to isolate and get a test immediately until they get a negative result.
- Anyone who visited or shopped at Bernardi's Marketplace Blayney Friday 27 August between 12:45pm-1:30pm are considered a casual contact isolate and get a test immediately until they get a negative result.
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Mark Logan
Started working in newspapers in the 1990's in the darkroom of the Pastoral Times in Deniliquin before moving to Millthorpe in 2003. Soon after arriving I started as a photographer at the CWD. Now a journalist at the Blayney Chronicle.
Started working in newspapers in the 1990's in the darkroom of the Pastoral Times in Deniliquin before moving to Millthorpe in 2003. Soon after arriving I started as a photographer at the CWD. Now a journalist at the Blayney Chronicle.
