Coles, health club and rowing club added to Victoria’s list of exposure sites

Victorian officials have updated its list of virus exposure sites, which now top more than 150 as the state grapples to stop the spread.

Victoria’s Department of Health has announced a raft of new exposure sites as the state tries to get on top of its new covid cases.

Victoria has 36 active covid cases, 24 locally acquired and 12 are overseas acquired cases with 155 exposure sites.

10 of the new 11 covid cases were locally acquired linked to the recent interstate incursions of Covid-19, and one case is a returned international traveller in hotel quarantine.

Queensland has also declared Victoria a Covid-19 hotspot from 1am Saturday.

“Anyone returning after that time will have to do the 14 days mandatory quarantine,” Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said.

The Yarra Yarra Rowing Club has been listed as a Tier 1 exposure site.

Anyone who has been at the following sites at the listed times is considered a close contract and must immediately get tested and isolate for 14 days — regardless of their result.

Cowes: North Pier Hotel – Main Building, Ground Floor, 5 The Esplanade, July 12, 7:22pm-10:47pm

Bentleigh East: Basketball Stadium, Valkstone Primary School, 44 Valkstone Street, July 14, 4:45pm-6:30pm

Melbourne: Yarra Yarra Rowing Club, July 14, 6:05am-8am

Melbourne: Yarra Yarra Rowing Club, July 15, 8:02am – 10:00am

Bundoora: VANS Outlet Bundoora, DFO Uni Hill, 2 Janefield Drive, July 9, 4:20pm – 4:50pm

Essendon: Re-Creation Health Club, 275 Buckley Street, July 13, 5:30am – 7:00am

Essendon: Re-Creation Health Club, 275 Buckley Street, July 13, 9:20pm – 10:30pm

Cowes: Coles, Cnr Church Street & Thompson Ave, July 12, 4:30pm – 5:30pm

Deakin University at Waurn Ponds has been listed as a Tier 2 site.

Anyone at the following sites at the listed times is considered a casual contact and are required to get tested and isolate until you receive a negative result.

Waurn Ponds: Deakin University – Waurn Ponds Campus – All floors of buildings IB and IC,

75 Pigdons Road, July 14, 10am-2pm.

Waurn Ponds: Deakin University – Waurn Ponds Campus – Market Hall (cafeteria), Building JB, 75 Pigdons Road, July 14, 12pm-1pm

Cowes: Phillip Island Bakery, 57-59 Thompson Avenue, July 13, 1pm-1:45pm

Cowes: Phillip Island Coffee Co, 1/29 Thompson Avenue, July 14, 9:10am-9:50am

Summerlands: The Nobbies, Phillip Island Nature Parks, 1320 Ventnor Road, July 13,

4:37pm – 5:10pm

Summerlands: The Nobbies, Phillip Island Nature Parks, 1320 Ventnor Road, July 12,

3:35pm – 4:20pm

Hawthorn East: Anaconda, 3/742 Toorak Road, July 15, 10:35am – 11:10am

Camberwell: Woolworths, 5/57 Station Street, July 14, 4:18pm – 4:50pm

Truganina: BP Service Station- Westbound, 1789 Western Freeway, July 13, 7:15am – 7:50am

Essendon: KFC Niddrie, 91/101A Keilor Road, July 13, 8:30pm – 9:00pm

Moonee Ponds: Coles Moonee Ponds, Cnr Homer Street & Eddy Street, July 13, 9pm – 9:35pm

Cowes: A Maze N Things Theme Park, 1805 Phillip Island Road, July 14, 3:46pm – 4:48pm

Cowes: G’Day Tiger, 3/34 Thompson Avenue, July 13, 9:16am – 10:24am

Percy Beames Bar, Members' Reserve (Level 2) – Melbourne Cricket Ground has been listed as a Tier 1 coronavirus exposure site. Picture: Twitter

There are also concerns for people who travelled to the MCG for the Carlton and Geelong game on Saturday as well as those who drank at the popular Young and Jackson pub beforehand.

“Some people within the Members’ Reserve who we have subsequently identified as coming into close contact with a confirmed case will also be messaged directly from the Department and be instructed to quarantine for 14 days,” Victoria’s Health Department tweeted.

Those at the following locations at the following times have been classed as close contacts and need to isolate immediately, get tested and quarantine for 14 days:

• Route 70 tram: Departing Flinders St/Swanston St at 3:46pm and arriving at the MCG at 3:53pm on July 10.

• Melbourne CBD: Young and Jackson pub on Flinders St between 2:40pm and 4:10pm on 10 July.

• Greensborough: Banyule City Council Offices, Level 3, 1 Flintoff Street 8am – 5pm on July 12.

• Bundoora: Salvos Stores, 1/89 Plenty Road, 11:45am – 1pm on July 13.

• Cremorne: Ms Frankie, 24 Cremorne Street, 6pm – 7:45pm on July 13.

The following has been classed a Tier 2 site and require people to isolate, get a test and stay isolated until negative.

Jolimont to Flinders St train: Departing 7:05 and 7:13pm on July 13.

Earlier on Thursday night the Department of Health alerted residents over a DFO at Bundoora.

• Form Home at DFO Uni Hill, 2 Janefield Dr on 9 July between 5pm – 5:45pm

11 other stores at this complex around these times are also Tier 1 exposure sites.

If you visited this DFO, view all the listings online now.

In Carnegie, meanwhile, two stores were listed as Tier 1 sites,

• Woolworths Carnegie North, 2/20 Koornang Rd on 13 July between 4:40pm – 5:15pm

• Spotlight at Carnegie Central Shopping Centre, 14/2 Koornang Rd on 13 July between 4:20pm – 5:00pm

New Tier 1 exposure sites have been published at https://t.co/xojLvnrdjA.

If you visited a Tier 1 exposure site during these times, you must immediately isolate, get a COVID-19 test, and quarantine for 14 days. You should also contact us on 1300 651 160. pic.twitter.com/APeSEWx1wr

— VicGovDH (@VicGovDH) July 15, 2021

Virus alert for Melbourne shopping centre

A major shopping precinct in Melbourne’s southeast – as well as two gyms – have been added to Victoria’s rapidly expanding list of exposure sites after Covid-19 skipped the border from NSW.

The state recorded two new Covid-19 cases in addition to the 10 infections officially announced on Thursday morning.

They are all linked to a team of Sydney removalists and a family that returned to Melbourne’s north from a NSW red zone.

The Department of Health added four alerts linked to Oakleigh Central Shopping Centre on Thursday afternoon.

• Oakleigh: Oakleigh Central Shopping Centre – male toilets; July 9 between 2.40pm to 3pm, tier 1
• Oakleigh: Oakleigh Central Shopping Centre – male toilets; July 9 between 3.55pm to 4.15pm, tier 1
• Oakleigh: Oakleigh Central Shopping Centre, July 9 between 2.40pm to 3pm, tier 3
• Oakleigh: Oakleigh Central Shopping Centre, July 9 between 3.55pm to 4.15pm, tier 3

Oakleigh Central shopping centre has been listed as a Covid exposure site. Picture: David Crosling

Two gyms were also among the new exposure sites:

• Point Cook: QuickFit Health Club 110/22-30 Wallace Ave, July 13 between 9pm to 10.30pm, tier 1
• Werribee: Persist Fitness 85 Riverside Ave, July 14 between 9.30am and 11am, tier 1
• Werribee: Persist Fitness 85 Riverside Ave, July 13 between 9.30am and 11am, tier 1
• Werribee: Persist Fitness 85 Riverside Ave, July 12 between 9.30am and 11am, tier 1

An entire football team and their coaches were also forced into 14 days quarantine after the club was listed as an exposure site due to contact with a positive case at a training session on Monday.

Several tram routes have been listed as exposure sites. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Andrew Henshaw

The Barwon Heads Football and Netball Club players and coaches at the Howard Harmer Oval on Bluff Rd from 4.30pm to 6pm on July 12 need to get tested immediately and quarantine for 14 days from their exposure.

Spectators watching the training session have been listed as tier 2 close contacts and need to get tested and isolate until they receive a negative result.

The following venues were listed as tier 1 exposure sites on Wednesday night, meaning contacts need to get tested immediately and quarantine for 14 days:

• Public transport: Yarra Trams – Route 82 (Footscray Station/Leeds St to Edgewater Square/Gordon St), July 10 from 7.51pm to 8.14pm
• Barwon Heads: Barwon Heads Football and Netball Club (players and coaches), Bluff Rd, July 12 from 4.30pm to 6pm
• Craigieburn: Craigieburn Sporting Club, 235/251 Craigieburn Rd, July 12 from 10.45am to 2.30pm
• Craigieburn: McDonald’s Craigieburn, 256 Craigieburn Road West, July 11-12 from 11.50pm to 12.30am
• Craigieburn: McDonald’s Craigieburn, 256 Craigieburn Road West, July 13 from 1.35pm to 2.20pm
• Public transport: Yarra Trams- Route 82 (Edgewater Square/Gordon St Maribyrnong to Leeds St/Footscray Station, Footscray), July 10 from 2.09pm to 2.25pm
• Public transport: Yarra Trams- Route 70 (Flinders St/Swanston St to MCG), July 10 from 3.46pm to 3.53pm;
• Bundoora: Fila – DFO Uni Hill, 2 Janefield Drive, July 9 from 4.20pm to 4.50pm
• Bundoora: Asics – DFO Uni Hill, 2 Janefield Drive, July 9 from 4.25pm to 4.55pm
• Bundoora: yd – DFO Uni Hill, 2 Janefield Drive, July 9 from 4.50pm to 5.20pm
• Bundoora: New Balance – DFO Uni Hill, 2 Janefield Drive, July 9 from 4.15pm to 4.45pm
• Bundoora: Puma – DFO Uni Hill, 2 Janefield Drive, July 9 from 4.20pm to 4.50pm
• Bundoora: Nike – DFO Uni Hill, 2 Janefield Drive, July 9 from 4.30pm to 5pm
• Bundoora: Under Armour – DFO Uni Hill, 2 Janefield Drive, July 9 from 4.40pm to 5.10pm
• Bundoora: Cotton On – DFO Uni Hill, 2 Janefield Drive, July 9 from 5pm to 5.30pm
• Bundoora: Adidas – DFO Uni Hill, 2 Janefield Drive, July 9 from 5.05pm to 5.35pm
• Bundoora: Rivers – DFO Uni Hill, 2 Janefield Drive, July 9 from 5.10pm to 5.40pm
• Bundoora: Connor Clothing – DFO Uni Hill, 2 Janefield Drive, July 9 from 5.15pm to 6pm

Footscray train station is also an exposure site. Picture: Andrew Batsch

The following venues were listed as tier 2 exposure sites on Wednesday night, meaning contacts need to get tested and isolate until they receive a negative result:

• Barwon Heads: Barwon Heads Football and Netball Club (spectators), Bluff Rd, July 12 from 4.30pm to 6pm
• Waurn Ponds: Officeworks, 3/213-217 Colac Rd, July 11 from 1.30pm to 2.30pm
• Highton: APCO Service Station, 250 South Valley Rd, July 11 from 2.10pm to 2.45pm
• Broadmeadows: Arrow Petroleum (Petrol Station), 80 Camp Rd, July 11-12 from 10pm to 12.30am
• Public transport: Metro Train (Footscray Station to Flinders St Station), July 10 from 2.27pm to 2.46pm
• East Melbourne: Jolimont Railway Station, Wellington Crescent, July 10 from 7.05pm to 7.17pm
• Public transport: Metro Train (Flinders St Station to Footscray Station), July 10 from 7.27pm to 7.46pm
• Melbourne: Tram Stop 5 – Flinders Street, corner of Flinders and Swanston streets, July 10 from 3.43pm to 3.46pm
• Public transport: Metro Train (Jolimont Station to Flinders St Station), July 10 from 7.13pm to 7.20pm

Victorians have been urged to check the health department website for the full list of exposure sites across the state.