The owners of Nino’s Café in Victor Harbor say they only found out their business had been declared a COVID-19 exposure site via social media.

Simon and Kirsten Pitman posted on Facebook just after 9am this morning saying,

“As you may have heard, Ninos was visited by a covid case on Sunday 28/11 late evening, 8.15-9.15pm.”

“The first we were made aware of this was early hours this morning by a diligent staff member seeing it on social media.”

“To date we have not been contacted by SA HEALTH, SAPOL or anyone in tracing. We attempted to contact them this morning, and office is currently closed.”

“It is very encouraging that media were all aware, would have been nice to get a heads up ourselves.”

“As we have for the last 20months, our amazing team have been diligent, worn masks, cleaned between customers, and maintained all health directions to the best of our ability.”

“We have now followed current process laid out in the documentation and have all staff that were working during that time getting tested and isolating as required.”

“We have mashed together a roster and will endeavour to keep trading as long as it is deemed safe to do so.”

“As is always the case, we will monitor the situation and act in accordance with direction, whenever sa health decide to grace us with a phone call.”

“Fun times. Stay safe everyone. Xxx. Kirsten, Simon and the Ninos team.”

SA Health released a new list of exposure sites late on Friday night that included Nino’s Café in Victor Harbor.

Unvaccinated contacts who were at the café from 8.15pm to 9.15pm on Sunday 28 November must:

Immediately quarantine for 14 days since being at the location and get tested immediately. They must also get tested again on days 6 and 13.

Vaccinated contacts who were at the café during the exposure time must:

Immediately quarantine for 7 days since being at the location and get tested immediately.

They must also get tested again on days 6 and day 13.

They must not attend high risk settings or COVID Management plan events for 14 days after exposure.

They must also wear a surgical mask when around others and avoid contact with vulnerable people.

They must also avoid non-essential activities where possible and avoid shared spaces and maintain physical distancing on days 8 to 14 after exposure.

There is a COVID testing site at the South Coast Hospital in Encounter Bay. As at 9am this morning there was a line of about 20 people.

There are also drive-through testing facilities at Pridham Boulevard in Aldinga and on Beach Road at Christies Beach.