by Alesha Capone and Benjamin Millar
UPDATE: The Coles at Sanctuary Lakes Shopping Centre and the Sanctuary Lakes Hotel have both been added to the list of COVID exposure sites.
The hotel, at 280 Point Cook Road, Point Cook, has been named a tier one exposure site after a person with the virus attended the venue on Tuesday between 12pm and 9pm.
Anyone who attended the hotel within this timeframe has been advised to get tested immediately and quarantine for 14 days from exposure.
The Coles, at 300 Point Cook Road, Point Cook, has been named as a tier two exposure site after a person with the illness attended the store on Wednesday between 11.30am and 12.30pm.
Anyone who has visited the Coles at this time should urgently get tested for COVID, then isolate until receiving confirmation of a negative result.
Continue to monitor for symptoms and get tested again if symptoms appear.
FROM EARLIER: Gyms in Werribee and Point Cook have been listed as tier one COVID-19 exposure sites.
A positive case attended Persist Fitness at 85 Riverside Avenue, Werribee on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday between 9.30am and 11am.
A positive case also attended the QuickFit Health Club, 110/22-30 Wallace Avenue, Point Cook on Tuesday between 9pm and 10.30pm.
Anyone who attended the gyms at these times has been advised to get tested immediately and quarantine for 14 days from exposure.
Bacchus Marsh Grammar students have been ordered to stay home for the rest of the week after a teacher at the school tested positive for COVID-19.
The teacher is understood to have acquired the virus from a friend living in Ariele Apartments, the Maribyrnong apartment complex sent into lockdown on Tuesday after COVID-19 positive removalists from NSW visited the complex last week.
The school notified families on Wednesday afternoon that there had been a confirmed positive case of COVID-19 amongst the staff, forcing the immediate closure of Woodlea and Maddingley campuses.
“The school will be closed on Thursday 15 and Friday 16 July,” the school stated in a message to parents.
If a longer period of isolation is required for staff, online learning will commence from next Monday.
The teacher attended the school’s staff day with other teachers on Monday, but was not in direct contact with students on either Tuesday or Wednesday.
Principal Andrew Neal said all staff who were at the staff day have been directed by the COVID-19 Public Health Division Department of Health to isolate and be tested.
“We are awaiting instruction from the department on appropriate sanitation and cleaning of the school,” he said.
“This is a fairly fluid situation and we will endeavour to keep parents informed of the situation as it develops as we have further information of any additional public health requirements.”
Footscray train station has also been listed as a tier three exposure site, between 2.35 and 2.30pm and 7.45pm and 8pm on Saturday.
