Tier One exposure sites continue to climb in Melbourne after latest COVID-19 cases

14 Jul 2021

9News

Tier One exposure sites continue to climb in Melbourne after latest COVID-19 cases 9News

A popular Melbourne pub and bar are just some of the locations added to Victoria's ever growing exposure site list after seven new local cases were recorded today.

Six of the seven new cases are linked to the infected Sydney removalists, while the seventh attended the exposure site of Coles Craigieburn on July 10, where a family who had returned from Sydney visited in breach of Victoria's quarantine orders.

A growing list of new COVID-19 exposure sites is being constantly updated by Victoria's Department of Health, including several stores at Highpoint Shopping Centre.

The Reject Shop in Highpoint Plaza has been deemed a Tier One exposure site. (Nine)

The store was closed today as more exposure sites are expected to be identified. (Nine)

Tens of thousands of Victorians have been put on alert for COVID-19 symptoms after a positive case attended last weekend's AFL clash between Carlton and Geelong at the MCG.

The whole of the MCG is now listed as a Tier Three exposure site, with anyone who was at the Geelong-Carlton game between 4pm and 8pm on July 10 urged to be alert for symptoms and get tested immediately if any develop.

Any staff or patrons who were on Level 2 of the MCC Members' Reserve at the time are now Tier Two contacts and must immediately get tested and isolate until receiving a negative result.

Some staff and patrons are being assessed as close contacts.

They are being contacted directly by the Department of Health and directed into 14-day isolation.

Tens of thousands of Victorians have been put on COVID-19 alert after a positive case attended the game between Carlton and Geelong on Saturday, July 10. (The Age)

A number of supermarkets and retail stores and hospitality venues have also been added to the Department of Health's exposure sites, with anyone who was at a Tier One site directed into 14-day isolation.

The details for the new Tier One exposure site are as follows

SkinKandy, Highpoint Shopping Centre Level 1, 120-200 Rosamond Road Maribyrnong - 11.15am-12.35pm on Friday, July 9
The Reject Shop, Highpoint Shopping Centre Level 2 - 11.30am-12.10pm on Friday, July 9
Vanilla Lounge, Oakleigh - 2.45pm-4.30pm, on Friday, July 9
Ferguson Plarre Bakehouses, Highpoint Shopping Centre Level 2 - 10am-10.40am, Friday, July 9
Young & Jackson, Melbourne CBD - 2.40pm-4.10pm on Saturday, July 10
Maribyrnong Aquatic Centre, Maribyrnong - 10am-11.30am on Saturday, July 1

Ferguson Plarre Bakehouse in Highpoint Plaza has been cited as an area of concern and now listed as a Tier One location. (Nine)

The following Maribyrnong stores have also been added to the list of Tier Two exposure sites, with anyone who was there at the listed times on July 9 told to immediately isolate and get tested until receiving a negative result:

Highpoint Shopping Centre North Carpark Level 1 - 11.10am-11.40am and 12pm--12.30pm on Friday, July 9
ALDI, 11 Edgewater Boulevard, Maribyrnong - 5.30pm-6.10pm on Friday, July 9
Food Court Level 1 (near Strike Bowling) Highpoint Shopping Centre - 11.40am-12.20pm on Friday, July 9

Highpoint has been a place of concern before when Victoria experienced another outbreak in May.

Victoria's COVID-19 Response Commander Jeroen Weimar said testing capacity had been expanded at the Melbourne Showgrounds. (9News)

Overnight, two other new exposure sites were identified after health authorities searched through CCTV to track down the movements of two COVID-positive removalists.

The Caltex service station and Hungry Jack's on the Hume Highway in Kalkallo, north of Melbourne, have been marked as Tier One exposure sites.

9News captured the sites being deep cleaned this morning by workers in hazmat suits.

Investigations and interviews to track the movements of the Sydney removalists found the trio made a pit-stop on their way down to Victoria on July 8 at the service station between 9.07am and 10.06am.

Caltex and Hungry Jack's in Kalkallo have been marked as a Tier One site. (Google Maps)

Anyone who visited the venues at the service station must get tested immediately and quarantine for 14 days.

Other exposure sites of concern include the Mobil Ballan petrol station and the McDonald's Ballan outlet on July 8 between 5pm and 7pm.

The two infected removalists stopped at the servo and McDonald's after leaving a Maribyrnong apartment block before travelling to Adelaide.

Meanwhile, 78 apartments have gone into quarantine after the movers visited the Ariele Apartments complex while infectious on July 8.

Four of today's seven new cases are residents from two households in the apartment building.

One of today's cases is linked to a cluster in a family of four who returned from Sydney on a red zone permit but later broke quarantine requirements.

The family of four had been undertaking 14 days of quarantine inside their home in the City of Hume.