Following on from recent COVID-19 close contact venues in Chinderah and yesterday at Lismore Base Hospital when two construction workers were identified as close contacts of an exposure sight in Coffs Harbour, NSW Health has identified a sewage detection in the Byron Bay area. 

NSW Health’s ongoing sewage surveillance program has detected fragments of the virus that causes COVID-19 at the sewage treatment plant at Bryon Bay.

The sewage treatment plant serves about 19,000 people in Byron Bay, Wategos, Suffolk Park, Sunrise, and Broken Head.

NSW Health said, "There are no known cases in this area, which is of great concern." 

"Everyone in the area is asked to be especially vigilant for symptoms, and if they appear, to immediately come forward for testing and isolate until a negative result is received. If symptoms appear again, please be tested and isolate again."

Read the Lismore App's previous stories:

Lismore Base Hospital construction workers in isolation.

Pop-up COVID testing clinic arrives at local university