SUNRAYSIA Community Health Services will not be reopening its COVID-19 testing clinic next year.
And there will be no testing in Mildura on Christmas Day, despite new case numbers yesterday rising to 24.
SCHS has announced on its website that Wednesday will be its final testing clinic before Christmas, running from 1-4pm, with no plans to reopen them in 2022.
“Pop up clinics will be operated by demand only,” its website says.
Barratt and Smith Pathology will also be closing its doors for testing from December 25 to 27, while a drive-through clinic in Gol Gol will close on Christmas Eve and not reopen until January 10.
Wentworth Health Service will be closed on December 27 and 28, as well as January 3, and all weekends.
Sunraysia Daily has contacted SCHS for comment.
TESTING CLINICS
Barratt and Smith Pathology
Walk-in clinic will operate normal opening hours of 8.30am-5pm until December 24.
Testing will not be available from December 25 to 27.
Barratt and Smith will reopen on December 28 for two hours, 10am to 12pm.
Normal testing resumes on December 29 until 31.
The clinic will be closed from January 1 to 3.
Normal testing will resume January 4.
Sunraysia Community Health Services
SCHS’s testing clinic is open until December 22, 1pm to 4pm.
SCHS has said the testing clinic will not be reopening in 2022 but pop up clinics would be operated according to demand.
Walk-in testing is available December 26 and 27, 10am to 12pm.
Gol Gol Drive-Through Clinic
The Gol Gol Oval clinic is closed from December 24 until January 10.
Outside of these times it operates from 9am to 2pm.
Wentworth Health Service
The Wentworth clinic operates Monday to Friday, 9am to 3pm.
It is closed December 27, 28 and January 3 as well as all weekends.
