"Certainly of the outbreaks we're seeing on the Wodonga side of the border it is well contained and well defined within a certain community, we're working very closely with them on that," he said.

"I don't see this at this point in time it being beyond that but we're checking in and we're meeting with people every single day, if that situation changes or evolves we'll put more resources in there if we need to."

On the NSW side, earlier this week Murrumbidgee Local Health District expressed concern the outbreak was seeding into other parts of the district.

Mr Weimar declined to go into specifics of the outbreak and affected community saying "I'm not sure that's entirely helpful for a statewide conference".

"We are seeing a significantly younger cohort of people becoming positive and moving around the community in that part of the world, again that's not unusual at this point in time," he said.

"We're seeing again a large number of unvaccainated people who are catching COVID and spreading it in their networks and that's why our action plan up there is around, to try and minimise that."

Mr Weimar was unable to say how many cases were recorded in Wodonga.

Earlier today Albury Wodonga Health confirmed there were 46 new cases of COVID-19 reported in Wodonga in the 24 hours to 8pm on Tuesday.

There were 34 cases recorded in Albury, six in Wangaratta, two in Wagga and one each in Federation and Murray River.

Mr Weimar said two or three testing teams had been sent to the region last week.

"There is a huge amount of work going on on both sides of the Albury-Wodonga border, we're working very closely with NSW Health, in fact we've got daily instant review team meetings with our colleagues across both sides of the Murray," he said.

"Look let's be very clear it is a significant outbreak happening in Albury-Wodonga at the moment... we've got literally hundreds of cases on the Wodonga side of the border, I think around two or three fold that on the Albury side of the border and of course they are very interconnected communities.

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"We deployed additional testing [resources] up there last week, those additional testing resources and teams continue to be up there. We're working closely with a large number of schools that have been impacted with students moving around the community and being positive and in fact our deputy Chief Health Officer was in Wodonga himself on Saturday and Sunday of last weekend. So there onsite working closely with the teams up there.

"So there is a significant response in place at Albury-Wodonga, I can appreciate absolutely that there is a busy testing scene up there and I know our NSW colleagues have also put additional resources into their testing capacity.

"We've seen this before time and time again with regional outbreaks, there is usually a busy three day cycle as people respond to the call to action to get tested, I would always urge and I know we've been doing this locally, anyone who has been symptomatic, anyone who is a primary close contact, anyone who has been to those exposure sites, to get tested first and to encourage others to wait a little while."

The Border Mail has asked the Department of Health for details of what resources have and would be sent to the region. They were not answered.

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