NEWS that COVID contagious Sydney removalists visited a North Albury wreckers instead of returning directly home has upset Albury MP Justin Clancy.
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It was revealed on Friday that the workers had been at the business last Saturday, two days after it emerged they had been at a Jindera service station on the same day.
"There's absolute frustration around these removalists in terms of their unpreparedness to be fully frank with health authorities, that jeopardises our community's health and there's nothing but frustration from that," Mr Clancy said.
"For them to be making other stops is not consistent with what they should have been doing full stop, as a close contact they should have been returning directly to Sydney before going into self-isolation."
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Mr Clancy said there would be a "time and place" for the removalist company to be named and he reiterated Victorian COVID commander Jeroen Weimar's view that "justice will be served".
In better news, the immediate contacts that were at the Shell station when the removalists visited have produced negative coronavirus tests.
Findings for those secondary contacts, who were swabbed at the Jindera Sportsground, Albury Showground and Lavington hall over the past two days, should be known over the weekend.
Jindera-based Greater Hume Shire councillor Jenny O'Neill said around 75 tests were done at the sportsground on Friday before it closed at 1pm due to dwindling numbers.
She and shire general manager Steve Pinnuck assisted four nurses at the site amid testing weather that saw tents lifted up by winds.
"I think it was successful in it did allow the locals to get down and get tested without travelling," Cr O'Neill said.
"People are getting on with their lives and hopefully with all the primary ones negative they can be rest assured."
Cr O'Neill said the experience would be sobering.
"I just think people are going to be a bit more observant of the rules," she said.
"It's a wake-up call that these rules aren't there to annoy us or to make our lives tricky."
While the Jindera clinic has ended, the Albury showground and Wodonga Vermont Street testing sites are open between 8am and 4pm on Saturday.
However, wet weather on Friday morning prompted the abandonment of a swabbing station at the Wodonga racecourse.
Following news of the COVID exposure at Jindera breaking late on Wednesday evening, there was an increase in testing at the two Wodonga sites on Thursday.
There were 237 samples gathered on that day compared to 162 on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, Charles Sturt University has moved to clean buildings at its Thurgoona campus after a close COVID contact visited rooms there this week.
The university has not stated whether the contact was a staff member or student.
Charles Sturt advised if staff or students were at any of the below areas at the relevant times they were a secondary contact.
- Building 760 - July 13 from 10am to 1pm.
- Building 666 - July 13 from 1pm to 3pm.
- Building 666 - July 14 from 9.45am to 9.50am.