Staff at Blacklocks Ford Wodonga who dealt with a casual COVID-19 contact have been sent home from work and told isolate until they get a negative test result.
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Blacklocks Ford dealer principal Michael Dixon said between dropping their car off for a service at the Wodonga business on Friday morning and picking it up that afternoon, a teacher at Shepparton's St Mel's Primary School received a text saying they were a casual contact of a positive case connected to the school.
Mr Dixon said the casual contact notified the Blacklocks staff when picking up their car.
"They've had no direct contact with anyone who is a confirmed COVID case," he said.
"As a precautionary method, we contacted the DHHS, we enacted our COVID-safe plan, anyone who had contact with that particular customer we sent off for a COVID test."
Mr Dixon said the customer was not showing any symptoms.
"The customer has our details, so if the situation changes they'll advise us," he said.
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Mr Dixon said the business had been open with their staff and customers about the situation.
"We have to be on the front foot, we have to do everything we can to keep our staff and customers safe," he said.
"I think everyone should be concerned about the situation that we find ourselves in, but as long business do the right thing we're doing everything we can to keep our staff and customers safe at all times and that's all we can do.
"So we're doing that, we'll continue to do that, everyone follows our safe practices in the workplace when it comes to hygiene, masks, sanitisation and customers checking in, so realistically we're doing everything we can and I think our staff and our customers appreciate that."
It comes as 12 new cases of COVID were detected in Shepparton, days after COVID fragments appeared in the town's wastewater.
St Mel's Primary School was closed today as the original case - a man in his 30s - had two children at the school.
The school closed all its campuses, asking parents to collect their children as soon as possible.
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