NSW Health provides Grafton, Lismore, Northern NSW Covid update

Covid testing clinics have expanded their hours after four new cases were detected in Grafton, adding to three other new Northern Rivers cases.

Three new Covid-19 cases have been detected in Northern NSW.

There have been four new Covid-19 cases detected in Grafton and three new Covid-19 cases connected to the Kyogle cluster reported in Northern NSW on Wednesday.

Northern NSW Local Health District confirmed the four positive Grafton cases were reported since 8pm on Tuesday and would be included in Thursday’s numbers.

Those cases are still under investigation.

Northern NSW Local Health District chief executive Lynne Weir said two new cases were in the Casino area and one case was in the Lismore area.

All three were household contacts of confirmed cases.

Two of the cases had been self- isolating and one had been infectious in the community for 24 hours, she said.

Ms Weir said two cases were being cared for in hospital and both were in a stable condition.

It came after Deputy chief health officer Dr Marianne Gale said numbers were “stabilising” across the state but urged regional communities to be “especially vigilant”.

The latest recordings make 41 total cases confirmed in Northern NSW since June 16.

As a result of the Grafton cases, testing clinics will be available at:

– Grafton Base Hospital, 184 Arthur Street, Grafton, open seven days: Wednesday 6 October until 7.30pm. Thursday and Friday 7am – 7pm.

– Sullivan Nicolaides Pathology Grafton South, Coles Complex, Shop 9, 4 Bent

Street, South Grafton: Open 7am – 4pm Thursday and Friday.

Further dates and times for these testing clinics will be advised in due course.

Close contact locations were identified on Tuesday night.

They include Casino Healthwise Multicare Chiropractic, 117 Barker Street, all day from Friday, 24 September to Friday 1 October.

Lismore’s Healthwise Multicare Chiropractic Centre at 3/17 Orion Street was also identified as a close contact venue on Friday, 24 September.

Meanwhile in Queensland, Deputy Commissioner Steve Gollschewski said a person illegally caught crossing the NSW border at Goondiwindi had been issued a fine.