A Sydney resident working in Goulburn and another Victorian who returned from NSW have tested positive for coronavirus.
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The NSW Health Department confirmed the infected person in Goulburn was an essential worker who travelled from Sydney.
The person was working on a construction site next to the Goulburn Hospital.
It's the first regional case recorded during the current NSW outbreak.
Yesterday, the Victorian Health Department confirmed Victoria recorded two locally acquired cases of COVID-19 and one interstate-acquired infection, all linked to Sydney.
Two of the three cases were already announced by authorities on Monday.
The news comes after businesses in Ballan were listed among the state's tier one exposure sites.
"The third is another member of their household who has been isolating throughout their infectious period," the department said.
The family lives in the local government area of Hume and arrived in Victoria on red zone permits.
Three of the four family members arrived on a flight from Sydney on July 4, while the other drove in on Thursday.
They all tested negative shortly after arrival but two became symptomatic and were swabbed again on Sunday, returning positive results on Monday morning.
The flight has not been added as an exposure site as the three family members tested negative two days later and all other passengers remain in isolation as fellow red zone returnees.
Some 23,470 tests were processed in the 24 hours to Tuesday morning, while 14,384 vaccine doses were administered at state-run hubs.
Ariele Apartments on Thomas Holmes Street in Maribyrnong was listed as a tier- one exposure site overnight, with anyone who was at the building from 1pm to 11.59pm on Thursday required to immediately get tested and isolate for 14 days.
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Contact tracers say this includes anyone who accessed the residential foyer, stairwells, lift, residential floors and car park during that time period.
Anyone who entered the complex anytime from Friday to Monday must get also tested and isolate until they test negative for COVID-19.
The warnings exclude people who visited the commercial building on the ground floor of the complex.
Coles Craigieburn Central was also listed as a tier-one exposure site overnight, with anyone who attended the venue on Saturday from 5.28-6.38pm required to get tested and isolate for 14 days.
A number of other tier-two and tier-three exposure sites were also listed.
Three removalists, two of whom have tested positive, travelled from Sydney through Victoria to Adelaide last week .
The workers made a drop-off at a family home in Craigieburn and a pick-up at another in Maribyrnong on Thursday. Both families of four are isolating and have been tested.
The crew is believed to have immediately departed Melbourne and arrived in Adelaide in the early hours of Friday morning.
But Victoria's COVID Commander Jeroen Weimar on Monday said authorities still did not have a complete picture of their movements.
- with The Courier.
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