Albury Wodonga Health will open a third testing clinic on Wednesday and Thursday as residents undertake their day-13 tests.
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Due to the requirements from Tier 1 sites, the Wodonga Racecourse will be open tomorrow and Thursday from 9am to 5pm.
There were 87 new cases in regional Victoria today and the Barnawartha BP truckstop facilities were listed as an exposure site.
Exposure sites remain listed in Wodonga, but Wangaratta's exposures from the case that visited the city's ED have been removed following a 14-day period.
However, there are exposures in the city including Woolworths.
Health Department Deputy Secretary Kate Matson said a new isolation requirement was being piloted for supermarket workers.
"We've introduced a moderate risk category for those people who are fully vaccinated, and were properly wearing masks," she said.
"So those people, if they were in a room with someone for a shorter period of time, they may need to go home, isolate for five days and then may be able to return to work after a negative test after that five days, and participating in a surveillance testing program.
"Those rules don't apply for those people who are not fully vaccinated.
"We are still working through the critical industries that will be able to participate in those revised protocols, it won't be every industry."
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Premier Daniel Andrews reinforced indications made by Health Minister Martin Foley that border arrangements with NSW would change.
"We have a framework in place now, that framework I think will be able to change because of the case numbers we have," he said.
"As soon as I can make that announcement, I will."
