Three more people in Wodonga tested positive to COVID-19 and the Indigo Shire case reported over the weekend was reclassified as a false positive yesterday.
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Albury Wodonga Health chief executive officer Michael Kalimnios said the three new Wodonga cases had been isolating at home.
"They're all part of the same household and are related to the three existing COVID positive patients that were already self isolating," he said.
Mr Kalimnios said there was a low risk for any additional COVID-19 exposure sites being declared.
"You never know, but we don't expect at this stage to have any site declared because of those new positive cases," he said.
The cases bring the total number in Wodonga to six.
The first Wodonga case, reported last Friday, became positive as a result of close contact with a COVID-positive person while working outside of the region.
The additional five cases are household contacts of the first case.
Another case, a young woman from Melbourne, is no longer included in the Wodonga case numbers as she has returned to Melbourne.
Over September, Albury recorded seven COVID-19 cases, while Wangaratta recorded two.
Today, a positive case was reported in Deniliquin.
Meanwhile, following an initial inconclusive result, a COVID-19 case in Indigo Shire has been confirmed as a false-positive by the Department of Health's Expert Review Panel.
Mr Kalimnios said it was good news.
"So we're now standing down all our public health activity in terms of testing for the Indigo and Alpine Shires," he said.
"And all exposure sites that were identified in those areas have now been de-listed."
Myrtleford's Chemist King and Coles, and Beechworth's Shell Service Station had previously been identified as exposure sites.
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Mr Kalimnios said anybody that had been asked to test and isolate from the previously listed Indigo and Alpine Shire exposure sites were no longer required to do so.
"Which is really good," he said.
But he urged people who had visited Wodonga exposure sites to be patient and keep trying to get tested after the Vermont and Smythe Street testing clinics reached capacity before midday on Wednesday.
"We were overwhelmed with testing (on Wednesday)," he said.
Albury Wodonga Health completed 300 tests on Wednesday, and opened the Wodonga Racecourse yesterday and today to cope with demand.
Mr Kalimnios said residents could also attend the Lavington Hall and the Albury Showground testing clinics.
"They're not experiencing such a high level of demand, so we do ask that if people do need to get tested, if you can certainly use those two facilities in Albury, just to ease a bit of the pressure," he said.
"We are experiencing a high level of demand and waiting times of up to several hours at times."
Mr Kalimnios said the clinics had reached capacity primarily due to a shortage of staff, but AWH was working to increase its workforce.
"We've had over 500 expressions of interest from from people who are interested in working with us around our vaccination clinics, our contact tracing and testing," he said.
"We're really hoping that would go a long way to deal with that sort of potential staffing shortage."
Mr Kalimnios said it was "always a concern" positive cases could have missed out on testing.
"But we're confident that things are stable at the moment, the amount of testing that has been done so far is pretty indicative of the amount of exposure there is likely to be in the community," he said.
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