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Swab test milestone
THE 100,000 swab tests conducted by Peninsula Health for COVID-19 are being described as a “significant milestone for everyone involved”. The “milestone” patient visited the drive-through screening clinic at the Frankston Hospital campus, corner of Hastings Road and Yuille Street, last week. “Thank you to every single person who has come forward and done the right thing – getting that test at the earliest sign of any COVID-19 symptom,” the operations director of Peninsula Health’s screening clinics Jodi Foley said. “As the coronavirus situation evolved in Victoria over these past eight months, so have we, continually adapting our service to give more residents the opportunity to get a test quickly and locally,” Ms Foley said. “I want to pay tribute to our extraordinary team who have dedicated themselves to this purpose since we opened the first testing clinic at Frankston Hospital on 13 March.”
It’s a milestone: Peninsula Health staff Yvonne Santvoort and Jodi Foley with cupcakes representing 100,000 COVID-19 tests. Picture: Gary Sissons
Rail passengers kept out of the loop Brodie Cowburn brodie@baysidenews.com.au FRANKSTON line trains will skip the City Loop for the next five years. Major changes to train services were locked in last week. Passengers on the Frankston Line will skip the City Loop and travel straight through to Flinders
Street until the opening of the Metro Tunnel in 2025. An extra 45 services a week have been added to the Frankston Line. Cranbourne and Pakenham line passengers will get 90 new services each week, and will now travel anti-clockwise through the loop. The changes come into effect 31 January, 2021.
Other changes have been made to encourage passengers to travel during off-peak times. For three months in early 2021, myki users will receive a 30 per cent discount if they travel between 9.30am and 4pm or after 7pm on weekdays. Public transport minister Ben Carroll said “we’re introducing the biggest timetable change in a decade, de-
livering 450 extra train services to our busiest lines to give Victorians more options on their journeys and increase capacity on our trains.” “We know COVID Normal will see people travelling differently than in the past. Working from home arrangements, more services and a discount for off-peak travel will make it easier for people to stagger their trips.
“This is just the first step in the massive improvements Victorians will see to our transport network, with new bigger, better trains as we prepare to deliver the Metro Tunnel and our upgrades of every regional rail line still to come.” Changes to bus services between Frankston and the Mornington Peninsula were also announced last week. Continued Page 3
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