NSW Health reports that results are negative after follow-up testing conducted two days after SARS-CoV-2 fragments were found in the Yamba Sewerage Treatment Plant (STP).
Byron and Lennox Head STPs have also returned negative results.
However, Northern NSW Local Health District is urging people in the Byron Bay area to get tested for COVID-19 if they have even mild symptoms, following the detection of fragments of the virus that causes COVID-19 in the Byron Bay sewage treatment plant in a sample collected on 17 August.
The Byron Bay sewage treatment plant serves approximately 19,000 people in the Broken Head, Suffolk Park, Byron Bay, Wategos, and Sunrise areas.
There are no new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in residents of Northern NSW Local Health District.
NSW Health's ongoing sewage surveillance program has recently detected fragments of the virus that causes COVID-19 at the sewage treatment plant in Bateau Bay, which serves around 39,000 people and includes the suburbs of Bateau Bay, Blue Bay, Killarney Vale, Long Jetty, Shelly Beach, The Entrance, The Entrance North and Toowoon Bay.
This detection is of particular concern as there are no known cases in the Bateau Bay area. Everyone in this area is urged to monitor for the onset of symptoms, and if they appear, to immediately be tested and isolate until a negative result is received.
NSW Health's ongoing sewage surveillance program has also recently detected fragments of the virus that causes COVID-19 at the sewage treatment plant in Parkes, which serves around 11,600 people. Everyone in this area is urged to monitor for the onset of symptoms, and if they appear, to immediately be tested and isolate until a negative result is received.
Readers can find information about the NSW Sewerage Surveillance Program here.
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