UPDATE: Wimmera Health Care Group health officials are asking for people at risk of exposure to get tested.
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If you travelled on the Western Freeway (westbound) from the direction of Melbourne/Melton towards Ballarat AND did you stop at the McDonalds and Mobil Service Station near Ballan between 5-7pm for any reason or got McDonalds or any food/goods delivered from this station to isolate at home and get tested immediately.
"Only leave home to get your test - do not stop anywhere along the way," a WHCG spokesperson said.
"Stay home until you are contacted by the Grampians Public Health Unit."
To get tested, visit our clinic in Read Street, Horsham, open every day from 9am to noon.
There has been a secondary health alert in South Australia.
SA Health has identified an exposure location associated with positive cases of COVID-19.
Tailem Bend - Shell Tailem Bend on Friday, July 9 between 5.20pm to 7.00pm.
If you were at any of the below locations at the specified dates and times, you and your household members must:
- immediately quarantine for 14 days since you were at the location
- get tested immediately
- get tested again on day 5 and day 13
- complete this form to notify SA Health you were at this location.
If you were at this location but not at the specified date and time, monitor yourself for symptoms and get tested as soon as they develop.
EARLIER: DEPARTMENT of Health investigators have not identified any COVID-19 exposure sites within the Wimmera after a team of Sydney removalists infected with the virus travelled from Melbourne to Adelaide.
There was community concern in Horsham, a popular stopping point halfway between the two capital cities, but investigators have not come up with exposure sites.
However a popular stopping point for Wimmera residents on their way back from Melbourne, the Western Highway McDonalds and Mobil service station at Ballan has been identified as a Tier 1 exposure site.
This means anyone who visited the site on July 8, between 5 and 7pm needs to get COVID-19 tested and isolate for 14 days.
The Ballan service station is the second Tier 1 exposure site nominated in recent days, with the other in Craigieburn on Melbourne's northern fringe.
Wimmera health leaders said the latest brush with the virus highlighted the need for residents to not be complacent.
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Grampians Community Health tweeted "With there being a Tier 1 exposure site in Western Victoria, we need to stay vigilant. If you have any symptoms get tested and if you can get vaccinated then book in and get it done and we can stick it to COVID."
Keep up to date with Victorian exposure sites here.
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