CHARLESTOWN Square traders are among the latest Hunter additions to the Hunter's list of COVID exposure sites.
Hunter New England Health added to the list overnight, adding the Lake Macquarie retail hub's Coles and Dan Murphy's to the list of casual contact venues.
The exposure at Dan Murphy's was between 11.23am and 11.27am on Sunday August 29, while Coles' exposure was 10.25am to 11.25am the same day.
Foodworks Whitebridge was exposed between 3.45pm and 3.55pm on Friday August 27 and twice, from 12.10pm to 12.15pm and 4.05pm to 4.10pm, on Saturday.
The IGA X-Press at Shoal Bay, where contact tracing continues after a mystery case was one of two in that local government area named in Thursday's update, was exposed between 10.50am and 11am on Saturday August 28.
Anyone who attended those venues during the specified windows are officially designated casual contacts, unless NSW Health has reached out to them as close contacts.
That means they must get tested and isolate until a negative test result is received.
It comes hours after police fined Sydney tree loppers who allegedly went door to door in Newcastle and Lake Macquarie $33,000.
