Four Melbourne supermarkets cleaned after positive coronavirus cases

Four supermarkets have been deep cleaned after three workers and a customer tested positive to coronavirus in Melbourne.

Four Melbourne supermarkets have been deep cleaned after three staff members and a customer tested positive to coronavirus.

A Coles and a Woolies in Tarneit, in Melbourne’s western suburbs, and Coles Northland in Preston, were cleaned after three workers were identified as positive cases.

All three staff were now self-isolating, the supermarkets said.

Both employees at Woolworths Tarneit Gardens and Coles Northland last worked on August 18, while the staff member at Coles Tarneit, on Davis Rd, was last in the store on August 6 and was identified as a close contact to a coronavirus case outside of work.

Coles said contact tracing did not identify any other team members as close contacts to the Tarneit store case.

They said one other team member from the Coles Northland, who worked in close contact with the positive cases, had been asked to self-isolate.

“As an added precaution, Coles conducted an additional deep clean of the store,” the supermarket said.

“Consistent with prior practice developed with the Victorian Department of Health, the store can continue to trade, and the risk of transmission for customers and team members is very low.”

Shoppers outside a Woolworths store in the Melbourne wearing masks. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Andrew Henshaw

Woolworths urged any customers who shopped in their Tarneit Gardens store on August 17 or 18 and felt unwell in the next two weeks to make contact with health authorities.

A Woolworths customer who shopped at the Victoria Harbour store in Docklands on August 15 has also been confirmed as a positive case.

Woolworths said they had been advised the risk of transmission to customers and team members was low.

“As an extra precautionary measure we have undertaken an additional deep clean of the store,” they said.

“Customers and team members should be assured they can continue to safely shop and work at our Victoria Harbour store.”

Anyone who shopped in the Docklands on August 15 and felt unwell in the next two weeks should contact health authorities.

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