Truck driver in isolation with COVID, exposure site listed at Henty

The man is isolating at his Wodonga home.

AWH public health unit chief Lucie Shanahan said her team was working with him to determine any possible places of concern on his return to the region from South Australia.

"Any sites of concern will be announced to the public if they are identified," Dr Shanahan said.

"We can confirm the positive result was returned following a routine test that was completed in South Australia and at this point in time, there are no sites of concern in the Albury Wodonga region."

Victorian COVID commander Jeroen Weimar revealed the positive case as part of his daily briefing in Melbourne on Sunday.

It ends Albury-Wodonga's long run of no cases, which extended to July last year, and is the Victorian city's first diagnosis.

Mr Weimar praised the truck driver's move to quarantine himself.

"My thanks to him for doing that so swiftly, a critical part of course for us to continue to support the interstate freight industry," he said.

Also on Sunday, the Murrumbidgee Local Health District publicised that a Victorian essential worker, unrelated to the Wodonga man, stopped at service stations at Henty and on the Hume Highway at Coolac while COVID-19 infected.

The Henty visit to a Shell on the Olympic Highway occurred between 4.45pm and 4.50pm on Thursday August 26 and the stop at the Coolac Mobil roadhouse extended from 4.30pm to 5pm on Tuesday August 31.

Text messages are being sent to people who were at the venues at these times and checked in with a QR code.

Both sites had COVID-19 business safety plans in place.

MLHD is asking anyone in Henty or Coolac, or those who have been there recently, to get tested if they have even the mildest of symptoms.

Tests are being done between 10am and 2pm on Monday at the Henty hospital.

Wodonga mayor Kev Poulton said the positive case was "certainly not a surprise" given the freight industry's role in the Twin Cities.

"We've all probably sat here for 18 months and thought 'how have we not had someone test positive'," he said.

Member for Benambra Bill Tilley said he hoped it was an isolated case that would not hinder the region's ability to be freed from Victoria's lockdown.

Member for Albury Justin Clancy said the truck had taken the right steps and "hopefully that's prevented any spread of this to the Wodonga community".

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews said on Sunday he hoped restrictions in regional Victoria, excluding Shepparton, could be lifted "as soon as possible" although he was yet to get advice to say a release could occur.

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He stressed police numbers along the NSW border.

"Last year we had a ring of steel around Melbourne, I've currently got all of those police officers and more - I should say the chief commissioner does - up on the Murray, making sure that we don't have further incursions," Mr Andrews said.

He said Victorian and NSW ministers were working on QR technology that would allow for vaccine data to be read to grant entry into businesses in the future.

Meanwhile, Murrumbidgee local health service announced on Saturday that a COVID case in Wagga had proven to be a false positive.

The worker, who had visited areas west of the city, had been isolating following the initial result.