Priceline Pharmacy in Woden has been added as a close contact exposure site in the latest update from ACT Health on Monday night.
Anyone who visited the Westfield pharmacy on Sunday from 12.45pm to 2.30pm must complete the ACT Contact Declaration Form, immediately quarantine and get tested.
Anyone who visited Woolworths in Woden on Thursday from 7.50am to 8.30am or 1.20pm to 2.10pm as well as those who visited the supermarket on Friday from 7.50am to 8.30am is considered a casual contact and must follow health directions. Visitors to the supermarket at any time on Thursday are instructed to monitor for symptoms.
Several other locations were also listed or had their listings updated. These include:
- Coffee Guru Lanyon
- Lanyon Newsagency & Gift Shop
- Sushi Island Lanyon
- Liquorland Woden
- Woolworths Weston Creek
- BWS Weston Creek
- BP Phillip
- Woolworths Charnwood
- Argyle Housing - Ainslie Village
The latest update followed a doctors clinic in Civic and Woolworths in Holt being added to the list of ACT exposure sites, alongside Kingsley's Chicken Kippax.
The three locations were added as casual contact sites on Monday afternoon, there were no close contact sites added to the exposure list in the latest update.
Anyone who visited Garema Place Surgery from 11am to 12.20pm on Thursday or Woolworths Kippax from 3.20pm to 4.20pm and Kingsley's Chicken Kippax from 3.30pm to 4.20pm on Saturday is considered a casual contact.
Several exposure locations which require people to monitor for symptoms have also been added in Turner, Holt, Belconnen, Phillip, Weston, Greenway, Woden, Conder and Calwell.
They include popular cafes Clay in Turner as well as San Churro in Woden.
Anyone who has been to the casual contact exposure locations at the dates and time listed must complete the ACT Contact Declaration Form, immediately quarantine and get tested for COVID-19.
📍 26/08/21, Garema Place Surgery, Level 1, Florina Building, Garema Place, 11:00am to 12:20pm
— ACT Health (@ACTHealth) August 30, 2021
📍 28/08/21, Woolworths Kippax, Kippax Fair Shopping Centre, 26 Hardwick Crescent, Holt, 3:20pm to 4:20pm
There are now more than 190 exposure locations listed, as ACT recorded 12 new cases of Covid in the 24 hours to 8pm on Sunday.
It was confirmed over the weekend that a person had visited the Ainslie Village social housing complex while unknowingly infectious.
The complex has since been listed as a close-contact exposure site.
Of the new cases reported on Monday, six were linked to known infections, while investigations are ongoing for the remaining four.
There are also two cases with no known links at this stage.
A decision on whether the ACT will end its lockdown as scheduled on September 2 is due to be announced on Tuesday.
As the ACT's lockdown enters its third week, there are about 600 people who have self-identified as close contacts and are now in quarantine.
