Kambah Covid testing clinic to permanently close

The clinic opened on July 30 last year and, as at at May 3, more than 19,500 people had showed up there for a Covid test.

An ACT government spokeswoman said workers at the Kambah site would be moved elsewhere.

"Staff who have been providing the free testing service at Kambah will be redeployed, either to boost the existing EPIC and Weston Creek testing clinics, or to join the busy COVID-19 vaccination team," she said.

People in the ACT could continue to get tested for COVID-19 at the government-run drive-through clinic at EPIC, or at the Weston Creek clinic.

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They could also get tested at non-government sites: the Winnunga Nimmityjah Respiratory Clinic, Capital Pathology collection centres, Laverty Pathology, YourGP@Crace, and Lakeview Medical Practice at Tuggeranong.

For COVID-19 testing clinic locations and opening times, people can visit www.covid19.act.gov.au.

The territory government advised on Tuesday that anyone in the ACT who had visited greater Melbourne on or after May 5 should check to see whether they'd visited Covid exposure locations there.

If anyone in Canberra had visited a close contact exposure location, they had to immediately get tested for Covid, contact ACT health authorities, and quarantine for 14 days from the time they were there.

Anyone who had visited a casual contact exposure location had to get immediately tested and self-isolate until they received a negative result.

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