Covid-19: MidCoast, Coffs Harbour included in new Covid-case numbers

There are new cases of Covid-19 on the Mid-North Coast with two people testing positive within the Coffs Harbour and MidCoast local government areas.

Two people have returned positive test results for Covid-19 on the Mid-North Coast bringing the region’s number of infected people to eight.

Health authorities confirmed the additional case from Coffs Harbour was not infectious while in the community. The source of the Darawank case in the MidCoast local government area is still under investigation.

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It now means there are four Covid-positive cases isolating in Coffs Harbour, two in Kempsey and two in the MidCoast region.

NSW recorded a total of 1,043 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 in the 24 hours to 8pm last night.

Of the new cases, 38 are from Hunter New England Local Health District and one from the Mid-North Coast Local Health District.

NSW Health‘s ongoing sewage surveillance program has detected fragments of the virus

that causes COVID-19 at the West Kempsey treatment plant from samples taken on 21

September.

The West Kempsey sewage treatment plant serves around 5,900 residents in areas north of the Macleay River including Kempsey, West Kempsey, Greenhill, Yarravel and Aldavilla.

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Health authorities have confirmed a new case of Covid-19 and a site of concern within the MidCoast Local Government Area.

Details on the infectious person, and whether they were infectious in the community, have not yet been released, but they are one of 41 new cases to have emerged in the Hunter New England Local Health District overnight.

Of the new cases, twenty-six are from Lake Macquarie LGA, seven are from Newcastle, two Maitland, two Cessnock, two Muswellbrook and one from both MidCoast and Port Stephens LGAs.

Covid-19 testing has been encouraged for people in Coffs Harbour and Kempsey. Picture: NCA NewsWire Christian Gilles

Thirteen cases were infectious in the community, sixteen were in isolation for their entire infectious period and twelve are still under investigation.

Twenty-one cases are linked to known exposures or clusters, six are unlinked, and the source of fourteen cases is under investigation.

In addition to the confirmed MidCoast case, HNELHD also confirmed a new casual contact site at a Coolongolook petrol station.

Anyone who attended BP Coolongolook on Monday September 13 from 11am to 11:10am is a casual contact (unless they have been contacted by NSW Health as close contacts) and must get tested and isolate until a negative test result is received.