Change in COVID status

Dear Friends and Patients,

As you will be aware the COVID situation has changed again.

This communication is to update you on how the situation is evolving in the state, particularly Gippsland.

Gippsland Cases

X 1 Confirmed case in Leongatha

Primary and Secondary Contacts isolating / quarantining and being monitored by the Gippsland Public Health Unit

Exposure sites

MENTONE, MITCHAM and HALLAM

Also listed as of 0205 this morning includes the below site with the advice being if visited you should monitor for symptoms and if get symptoms to get tested (and isolate until result)

Wonthaggi	Wonthaggi Plaza Shopping centre 2 Biggs Drive, Wonthaggi VIC 3995	28/12/20 1:30pm-2.30pm	Kmart- shopped for 15 mins

Please keep checking this website for up to date information on public exposure sites, as it is much closer to home now: https://www.dhhs.vic.gov.au/case-locations-and-outbreaks

Access to Drive through testing clinics (no appointment required)

Wonthaggi at Bass Coast Health (0830-1800)

Leongatha at Gippsland Southern Health Service (0830-1800)

At Foster Medical Centre we have put on additional resources to help with an expected surge in demand for testing through the respiratory clinic also.