TWO people allegedly travelling from Dubbo to Ballina without a reasonable excuse to do so have been hit with hefty fines after Oxley police officers pulled them over on Gap Road at Werris Creek.
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Oxley Police District Superintendent Kylie Endemi said the fines were one example of the 13 penalty infringement notices handed out by local officers over the past 24 hours.
"It's disappointing that we're still seeing people moving through our communities in contravention of the public health order," she said.
"But from a community point of view you can have confidence in the fact that we are detecting those people and taking action against them."
Superintendent Endemi also highlighted an incident where two people were handed a court attendance notice for breaches of the public health order when they were allegedly caught breaking into a home at Gunnedah.
"Again, it's a minority of people doing the wrong thing but pleasingly we are certainly detecting those who continue to flout the public health orders," she added.
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THE community is still waiting on the results of Wednesday's sewage testing after fragments of COVID-19 were detected in Tamworth's sewage catchment for the third consecutive time this week.
NSW's sewage surveillance program detected traces of the virus in Tamworth's catchment on Tuesday and Thursday last week and Monday this week.
Additional tests were taken on Wednesday, and results were expected on Friday.
"We haven't had any advice on a positive test or otherwise, so we can only assume at this stage that we don't have a positive although we can't confirm that," Tamworth mayor Col Murray said.
"Council will still continue working with NSW Health, we'll have another test taken on Monday and that will be reported on Wednesday."
Region's walk-up mass vaccination hubs ready to roll
THERE are more opportunities than ever for locals to get a COVID-19 vaccine with multiple walk-up vaccination hubs across the New England North West this Saturday.
On Saturday, September 4, Gunnedah Health Centre will become a walk-in vaccination hub from 9am to 2pm.
Also on Saturday, September 4, is a walk-up vaccination clinic at Glen Innes Showground from 9am and 3pm.
Any member of the public over the age of 18 will be able to walk into the Glen Innes Showground main pavilion to receive their first or second AstraZeneca jab.
In Wee Waa, the Wee Waa Local Aboriginal Land Council will host a walk-up clinic from 10.30am to 3.30pm at 63-65 Rose Street, Wee Waa on Saturday, September 4.
In Narrabri at the Crossing Theatre there will be a walk-up clinic on Sunday, September 5 from 9.30am to 4.30pm and Monday, September 6, from 9.30am to 2.30pm.
A supply of Pfizer that will be available at the Narrabri shire clinics, thanks to the Royal Flying Doctor Service.
While in Tamworth, plans are going well for the city's first mass vaccination hub at the Tamworth Sports Dome on September 12 from 9am to 3pm.
Tamworth mayor Col Murray said even if you don't have a Medicare card, you can still be vaccinated on the day.
"There will be lots of staff there to provide assistance for anyone with literacy or language issues, we are quite confident that we're in a position to vaccinate anybody who turns up," he said.
"If necessary we will run another clinic the following Sunday on the 19th of September but we don't know yet what the demand is."
New COVID-19 case reported in Armidale local government area
Health officials are waiting on a secondary test, before confirming an Armidale man has tested positive to COVID-19.
While the case was announced by the state government on Friday morning, Northern Tablelands MP Adam Marshall told ACM the man's secondary test had not come back yet, and the case could be a 'false positive'.
The man who works in the aviation industry was tested on Monday at the Laverty drive-through site at Armidale Airport, then on Wednesday left the city for Mudgee in Central West NSW.
The result came back positive for COVID-19 on Thursday morning.
Anyone who had been in contact with him for the day he was back in Armidale was ordered to isolate after being tested on Thursday, Mr Marshall said.
The Western NSW Local Health District in Mudgee did the second test on the man.
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