NSW Health lists Wagga's Inspire Church as a COVID-19 exposure site

Anyone who was at the Inspire Church on Kooringal Road on Sunday morning, between 10.45am and 12.30pm, must seek out a COVID test immediately, NSW Health said.

They must then self-isolate until a negative result is received.

"You may be required to get more than one test," NSW Health said on its website.

The venue was listed on the NSW Health website late on Wednesday and is the first Wagga venue of concern to be listed on the site in weeks, after the switch to advising people of potential exposures through notifications from the Service NSW app.

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Venues visited by COVID positive people will not be listed as venues of concern on the NSW Health website unless public health units believe there is a risk to the public.

No new cases of COVID-19 in Wagga were announced on Wednesday by the Murrumbidgee Local Health District [MLHD], however 11 people in the city have been diagnosed with the virus since last Monday.

Fifteen detections of the virus were made across the district in the 25 hours to 8pm Tuesday - 13 in the Albury local government area and two in Greater Hume.

Residents and politicians in Wagga have expressed concerns with the new approach to how exposure sites are labelled and shared.

MLHD chief executive Jill Ludford has advised that this change reflected the shift to a "living with COVID" approach.

Anyone with the mildest of symptoms should seek out a COVID-19 test, and can do so in Wagga at several locations.

The MLHD drive-through testing clinic at Equex is open on Thursday and its last day is Friday, it was announced yesterday.

The drive-through testing site at the Riverina Playhouse car park in Tarcutta Street, which is run by Laverty Pathology, will continue to offer tests daily from 8am.

There are no changes to the MLHD's Murray Street clinic, which is open from 9am to 4pm daily, or the GP-led respiratory clinic in Glenfield Park.

For further testing locations across the district go to www.mlhd.health.nsw.gov.au, or for help accessing a test call the Murrumbidgee COVID-19 Hotline 1800 831 099.

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