A UNIVERSITY of Newcastle residential building has been added to a growing list of Hunter COVID-19 exposure sites.
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Any student who has been a resident of International House and has been on the campus between July 28 and August 7 is considered a close contact and must get tested and isolate for 14 days.
The university announced on Saturday that two of its students had tested positive to COVID-19.
There were four cases confirmed for Newcastle on Saturday.
NSW Health also announced on Saturday night additional exposure sites.
- Ampol Service Station, Maryland on Friday August 6 from 4.30am to 10am.
- Nextra Newsagency Charlestown Square on Thursday July 29 from 3.15pm to 3.22pm and 4.18pm to 4.24pm.
- Barber Industries, Westfield Kotara on Thursday August 5 from 1.30pm to 2pm.
Anyone at those venues at those times is considered a close contact and must get tested and isolate for 14 days.
NSW Health also announced that anyone at the following venues would be considered a casual contact.
Casual contacts must get tested and isolate until they get a negative result.
- KFC, Charlestown Square, Tuesday August 3 from 12.45pm to 1.10pm.
- Charlestown Square Foodcourt on Thursday August 5 from 12.41pm to 1.10pm.
- Cha Time, Westfield Kotara on Thursday August 5 from 2.06pm to 2.11pm
- Prouds, Westfield Kotara on Thursday August 5 from 1.59pm to 2.06pm
- 7 Eleven Service Station, Shortland Wednesday July 28 from 9pm to 9.05pm and Friday July 30 from 3.15am to 3.25am and Sunday August 1 from 4.37am to 4.47am.
- Oval 2 (soccer match) University of Newcastle on Wednesday August 4 form 5.30pm to 6.42pm
- Cha Time, Charlestown Square on Tuesday August 3 from 12.41pm to 12.44pm
EARLIER: NSW Health has advised that an XPT regional train which travelled from Broadmeadow To Armidale (via Werris Creek) on Thursday between 11:40am and 5.30pm is a COVID-19 exposure site.
Anyone who travelled on the train service is a close contact and must get tested and isolate for 14 days since they were on the train, regardless of the test result.
The same advice applies for anyone who visited the Shortland Hotel and Bottlemart at Shortland between 9pm and midnight on Thursday.
The Ampol service station at Toronto has been deemed a casual contact exposure site between 9.12am and 9.14am on Monday August 2.
The updated alerts come as two of the four new coronavirus cases in the Newcastle local government area announced on Saturday remain under investigation.
The four cases include two females under 20, a male under 20, and a female in her 20s.
The local health district said two of these were linked to cases announced in recent days, while the other two were still being investigated.
It did not say which people were linked and which weren't.
"These cases may explain some of the detects that we've had in sewage of the past week," Dr David Durrheim said in an update on Saturday.
Six new cases were recorded in the Hunter New England local health district, which spans from Swansea to beyond Tenterfield in the state's north, in the 24 hours to 8pm Friday.
In addition to the four in Newcastle, there were two cases in Armidale.
A female in her 20s from Armidale, who recently visited Newcastle, is a contact of a confirmed Newcastle case.
A man in his 50s, also from Armidale, is a household contact of the female in her 20s.
There are now 13 active cases in total across the Hunter New England local health district.
Dr Durrheim said he was "really concerned" that the virus "seems to have taken hold" in the young adult age group.
"We call out to all teens, and all young adults, this is not the time for gatherings," he said.
"Don't give the virus an opportunity to spread."
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