Melbourne’s New COVID Exposure Sites Are A Revs Visit Short Of 2021’s Loosest Night

With Melbourne’s latest cluster of coronavirus cases now rising to 15, Victorian Government officials are scrambling to conduct thorough contact tracing on positive cases in a bid to identify where they’ve been and who may have come into contact with them. This morning, DHHS officials released an extensive list of additional exposure sites, which has now grown to include the MCG of all places. But curious among those new entries is what appears to be the roadmap to one hell of a night out.

A string of bars in the Prahran/South Yarra area are now listed as Tier 1 exposure sites, meaning anyone present at the establishments within the specified time windows must immediately isolate, get tested, and remain in self-quarantine for a full 14-day period.

Those new sites, and the associated times, are as follows:

  • Three Monkeys, 210 Chapel St – Saturday May 22, 9:10pm to 11:00pm
  • Somewhere Bar, 181 Chapel St – Saturday May 22, 10:30pm to 1:00am
  • Three Monkeys, 210 Chapel St – Sunday May 23, 12:30am – 2:00am
  • Circus Bar, 199 Commercial Rd – Sunday May 23, 1:30am – 4:15am

That is…. quite the session. Honestly full credit to them for leaving one venue, going to another, and then returning to the original venue for a second stint. You can’t teach that kind of staying power.

Combined, even accounting for the to-ing and fro-ing between Three Monkeys and Somewhere, that accounts for only around 700 metres of footpath covered, which is something of a concern, particularly on an otherwise busy Saturday night.

All three venues have taken to social media to alert punters of the exposure risk, giving detailed information about the time windows and what steps those people affected by this need to take.

Melbourne’s current list of COVID exposure sites also involves a string of locations in the inner north, including the famed McDonald’s at Clifton Hill, Little Tienda cafe in Thornbury, the Nicholson Coffee House in Coburg, and an RMIT building on Queensbury St in Carlton.

All the vital information about Melbourne’s current COVID exposure sites can be found here. The state Government has declined to push the city into a formalised lockdown at this stage, but has not ruled out taking further action, with the next 24 hours viewed as being “critical.”

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