A SPATE of fresh exposure sites, including a Service NSW office and two motels, have been confirmed for the Hunter.
Walk-in vaccination clinics will run around the region from Thursday as the region prepares for Monday's re-opening despite its local government areas falling short of the 70 per cent double vaccinated mark.
Hunter New England Health has flagged the Belmont Palms Motel at Marks Point as one of several risk sites overnight, naming five distinct windows of exposure.
They were on Monday 27 September from 2pm - 11:59pm, the entire four-day period from Tuesday September 28 until Friday October 1 and midnight to 10am on Saturday October 2.
The Providence Medical vaccination clinic at Thornton was also an exposure site between 3.30pm and 3.50pm on Thursday September 30, with Simply Pharmacy at Wallsend also exposed on Tuesday September 28 from 12.45pm to 1.35pm and on Wednesday September 29 from 3.15pm to 3.50pm.
Warners Bay's Service NW was exposed on Tuesday September 28 from 2.10pm to 2.40pm and Wednesday September 29 from 2.55pm to 4.40pm.
Cumberland Motor Inn at Cessnock was also exposed for the entirety of five days from Friday October 1 until Tuesday October 5.
Sunday will be a statewide blitz for hospitality workers to get priority first doses of Pfizer, including at the Belmont hub. Club, restaurant and hotel workers are eligible to book appointments.
Awabakal is hosting a walk-in pop up clinic at Lowlands Bowling Club in Cooks Hill on Thursday between 10am and 2pm, aiming to vaccinate 300 Indigenous people.
Hunter New England Health will run walk-in Pfizer clinics at Belmont, East Maitland, Weston and Muswellbrook for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
The East Maitland clinic runs 10am to 3pm on Saturday and Sunday at East Maitland Community Health Centre on Stronach Avenue.
Muswellbrook Community Health will host the shire's clinic from 10am to 3pm from Monday to Thursday, with access off Bowman Street.
Finding Yellow Hall at Weston will offer walk-in jabs from 10am to 4pm on Friday, while the Belmont mass vaccination centre is open seven days a week offering the walk-in service for Indigenous people and their partners.
