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Victoria's chief health officer, Brett Sutton, has issued a statement urging residents of, or people who visited, the outer Melbourne suburb of Epping to monitor for any symptoms of Covid-19.
It comes after the Department of Health picked up traces of Covid-19 in the wastewater around the Epping and Wollert area and after the wrong supermarket was identified as an exposure site linked to a confirmed Covid-19 case nearly two weeks ago.
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