Health Minister Martin Foley has confirmed there was an additional case of COVID-19 recorded on Wednesday morning.
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This is on top of the eight new coronavirus cases announced that morning.
Mr Foley said the case wasn't a confirmed close contact and developed symptoms on Monday night.
The person was tested on Tuesday and positive results came through Wednesday morning.
Mr Foley said the person works at the Moonee Valley Racecourse drive-through testing centre as a traffic controller and worked at least two days while infectious.
"We do believe that there will be minimal risk to those at the site," he said.
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Mr Foley said investigations were in the early stages of the process. He expected there to be some exposure sites to drop in the next few hours.
He urged Victorians to continue to check in to check into venues using QR codes.
"Please check in everywhere every time and please get vaccinated when the opportunity arises and please get tested every time you have even the most mild of symptoms," he said.
Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton said the risk to people coming through the testing centre in their cars was "extremely low" as most people who used the centre wouldn't wind down their windows to talk to traffic controllers.
Mr Sutton said the real worry was about where the traffic controller picked up the virus from.
He said the man was wearing a mask, but wasn't wearing the same PPE as the medical staff who conducted the tests.
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