Truck driver's 30 minute pitstop on Bruxner Highway gives Ballina another COVID-19 contact tracing alert

 

On 20 August 2021 a truck driver pulled into the BP Travel Centre (left) on the Bruxner Highway at West Ballina for his only stop in the area. Sometime between 20 and 22 August 2021 he tested positive for COVID-19. The travel centre is now a listed contact tracing venue.

Northern NSW Local Health District, media release, 22 August 2021:

Northern NSW Local Health District has been notified that a confirmed case of COVID- 19 visited the BP Travel Centre at West Ballina on Friday, 20 August, 2021.

Anyone who attended the BP Travel Centre at 41 Bruxner Highway, West Ballina on Friday, 20 August from 8am to 8.30am is a casual contact and must immediately get tested and isolate until a negative result is received.

As the current situation evolves, we strongly encourage people to present for testing at the first sign of a respiratory or cold-like illness, such as a runny nose, sore throat, cough, fever or headache.

Testing clinics …….in the Ballina area include:

• Ballina 4Cyte Pathology Ballina Drive-through Clinic, 319 River Street, Ballina

• Ballina Respiratory Clinic, 92 Tamar Street, Shop 12, Tamar Shopping Village, Ballina

• Alstonville Sullivan Nicolaides Pathology, 106 Main Street, Shop 2, Alstonville

• Southern Cross University Sullivan Nicolaides Pathology Drive-through Clinic Military Road, Southern Cross University, East Lismore

• Lismore Base Hospital, Uralba Street, Lismore

• Lismore Sullivan Nicolaides Pathology, 62 Wyrallah Road, Shop 12, Wyrallah Road Shopping Centre

Once you have been tested, go straight home and self-isolate until you receive a negative result.

There are more than 450 COVID-19 testing locations across NSW, many of which are open seven days a week.

To find your nearest clinic visit https://www.nsw.gov.au/covid-19/how-to-protect- yourself-and-others/clinics