{"id":40088,"date":"2021-07-16T14:49:29","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T04:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/geelongtimes\/?p=40088"},"modified":"2021-07-16T14:49:29","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T04:49:29","slug":"covid-testing-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/geelongtimes\/news\/covid-testing-update\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID testing update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victoria\u2019s COVID response commander Jeroen Weimar has thanked the Barwon Heads Primary School community during today\u2019s press conference for undertaking a total 754 tests yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Weimar said the cluster of six COVID19 cases around Barwon Heads now included three household contacts of the first local case.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Barwon Health is advising the community that a South Barwon Reserve pop-up site on the corner of Barwon Heads Road and Breakwater Road, Belmont, has paediatric trained swabbers onsite to conduct COVID19 testing for children and infants.<\/p>\n<p>Barwon Health North will be open until 10pm tonight for COVID19 testing.<\/p>\n<p>There are extended hours and pop-up COVID19 testing sites operating across the region today and more information is available on the Barwon Health website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victoria\u2019s COVID response commander Jeroen Weimar has thanked the Barwon Heads Primary School community during today\u2019s press conference for undertaking a total 754 tests yesterday. 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