Tuesday, August 10
A list of new COVID-19 exposure sites in Newcastle has been released this afternoon.
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- The Great Northern Hotel, Newcastle on Friday 30 July from 7pm - 8pm
- Babylon, Newcastle on Friday 30 July from 8.05pm - 8.30pm
- The Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle on Friday 30 July from 8.45pm - 3.00am
Anyone who attended these places during these times is considered a casual contact due to the length of time between the exposure and the notification. They must get tested and isolate until a negative test result is received.
Three bus routes have also been identified. Anyone who was on these routes is considered a close contact and must get tested and isolate for 14 days, and await further advice from NSW Health.
Bus route 269 (Booragul to Warners Bay)
Tuesday 3 August
Entry time: 10:15 am
Exit time: 10:27am
Bus route 269 (Booragul to Warners Bay)
Wednesday 4 August
Entry time: 10:18 am
Exit time: 10:29am
Bus route 269 (Booragul to Warners Bay)
Thursday 5 August
Entry time: 10:16 am
Exit time: 10:28 am
Earlier:
A testing clinic at Telarah is now open to help meet the increased demand.
The Telarah Histopath Pathology Drive-through Clinic is located at 84 Green Street Telarah and is open every day between 8am and 6pm.
There were no new cases of COVID-19 in Maitland, but there were 10 in Newcastle and 3 in Lake Macquarie.
There are nine active cases in the Maitland Local Government Area.
No further exposure sites have been announced since two Maitland Christian School students tested positive last week and Jump N Swim Academy at Thornton was listed as an exposure site.
There is a growing list of exposure sites in Newcastle.
On the vaccination front, Rutherford Medical Centre had about 200 people turn up to a drop-in AstraZeneca vaccination clinic on Monday.
"We have had some interest since March but with the recent outbreak that interest has increased," Rutherford Medical Centre Practice Manager Sheree Hill said.
"We were vaccinating people over the age of 18 years.
"People have been very cooperative and have waited in their cars as requested until their name is called.
"People didn't have to be patients of the practice to have the vaccination.
"We're just trying to do our bit to help and we are looking at doing more clinics depending on the availability of the vaccine."
Where else can I get tested?
Marcellin Park, Lorn
The Lorn Surgery has been there from 10am offering testing at a drive-thru clinic. People are encouraged to bring a pen. The clinic will keep testing until it runs out of swabs.
Stockade Hill car park, East Maitland
4Cyte Pathology has a drive-thru testing clinic operating Monday to Friday 7.30am - 3.45pm and on Saturday 7.30am - 1.00pm.
Maitland Showground
South Maitland Laverty Pathology Drive-through Clinic is open Monday to Friday 7:30am-3:30pm Monday to Friday and on Saturday from 7:30am-1pm.
Maitland Hospital
Bookings are required. Children under 5 cannot be tested here. Phone (02) 4964 7497. It is open from 9:15am to 5pm 7 days a week.
In other news:
Earlier:
Friday, August 6
Four of the five people who tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday were from Maitland.
NSW Health has confirmed four cases were from the Maitland Local Government Area and only one case was from the Newcastle Local Government Area.
Two of the cases from Maitland were primary school students at Maitland Christian School, aged 8 and 11.
On Friday two more cases were announced - a woman in her 60s and a woman in her 20s.
Dr Kerry Chant said the woman in her 60s is linked to the Central Coast cases that were announced on Thursday.
She said the woman in her 20s is a household contact of a case in Newcastle that was announced on Thursday.
There were 11,366 COVID-19 tests conducted in Maitland.
In NSW there were 291 cases, 304 people are in hospital and 50 people are in intensive care.
Exposure sites:
Jump N Swim Academy, Thornton on Wednesday 4 August from 5pm to 5.30pm
HealthSure Medical Centre, Jesmond on 2 August from 3.20pm to 3.55pm
Target at Glendale shopping village on 1 August 2021 from 8.50am to 1.00pm
Apple Store, Charlestown Square on 29 July from 3.10pm to 3.50pm
Boost Juice, Charlestown Square on 29 July from 3.52pm to 3.56pm
Cotton On, Charlestown Square on 29 July from 3.57pm to 3.58pm
Jay Jays, Charlestown Square on 29 July from 3.58pm to 4.13pm, and 4.54pm to 4.59pm
Priceline Pharmacy, Charlestown Square on 29 July from 4.20pm to 4.25pm
Glassons, Charlestown Square on 29 July from 4.26pm to 4.41pm
Supre, Charlestown Square on 29 July from 4.43pm to 4.53pm
Factorie, Charlestown Square on 29 July from 5.02pm to 5.08pm
Charlestown Square Food Court (Guzman y Gomez and McDonalds) on 29 July from 5.09pm to 5.44pm
Ground Level Newsagency, Charlestown Square on 29 July from 3.16pm to 3.22pm, and 4.18pm to 4 .24pm
Pearl Nails, Charlestown Square on 29 July from 3.23pm to 4.18pm
Where to get tested:
Marcellin Park, Lorn
The Lorn Surgery has been there from 10am offering testing at a drive-thru clinic. People are encouraged to bring a pen. The clinic will keep testing until it runs out of swabs.
Stockade Hill car park, East Maitland
4Cyte Pathology has a drive-thru testing clinic operating Monday to Friday 7.30am - 3.45pm and on Saturday 7.30am - 1.00pm.
Maitland Showground
South Maitland Laverty Pathology Drive-through Clinic is open Monday to Friday 7:30am-3:30pm Monday to Friday and on Saturday from 7:30am-1pm.
Maitland Hospital
Bookings are required. Children under 5 cannot be tested here. Phone (02) 4964 7497. It is open from 9:15am to 5pm 7 days a week.
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Thursday, August 5
NSW Health alerted Maitland Christian School at Metford shortly after 8am Thursday that two students who attend the school had tested positive to Covid-19.
Parents of students at the school were notified via a message through the schools app at 8.30am and asked to collect their children urgently, get tested and self isolate.
Three other Hunter people all aged in their 20s have also tested positive. They are believed to have attended a beach party at Blacksmiths Beach in Lake Macquarie.
Testing clinics in Maitland were swamped - the queue at the Brisbane Street, East Maitland clinic snaking it's way to Stockland Green Hills and Police carried out traffic control.
The State's Chief Health officer Dr Kerry Chant urged people to get tested even if they had the slightest of symptoms.
At 11am Premier Gladys Berejiklian announced a snap one week lockdown for Maitland and other parts of the Hunter bringing the region into the umbrella of "the toughest lockdown restrictions anywhere in Australia" in force for Sydney and the Central Coast.
Pregnant Rutherford mum Jamie Lee Lobos tell of her anguish after receiving a text message to collect her two daughters urgently from Maitland Christian School because two fellow students had tested positive to Covid-19.
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