Castlecliff's Polson St Foodmarket was visited by a Covid-positive customer last Friday. Photo / Ethan Griffiths
Castlecliff's Polson St Foodmarket was visited by a Covid-positive customer last Friday. Photo / Ethan Griffiths
Customer numbers have slumped at Whanganui's only business deemed a Covid-19 location of interest, the store's owner says.
Castlecliff's Polson St Foodmarket was named a location of interest by the Ministry of Health on Sunday after the discovery of a local case in Whanganui city.
The Covid-positive person visited thedairy on Friday, December 3, between 1.15pm and 1.45pm.
The dairy is being treated as low-risk, meaning those who visited the store at the affected time are only asked to get a test and isolate if they develop symptoms.
The dairy owner, who did not want to give her name, said initially she thought the call, made on Sunday morning, to inform her of the possible exposure was a prank.
"It was a mobile number that rang that looked like any other number - I wasn't sure it was real to begin with," she said.
After confirming its authenticity, the store owner immediately started a deep clean of most surfaces and put up notices around the store to inform customers that the business had been confirmed as a location of interest.
But despite remaining open and taking precautions such as erecting a perspex screen and keeping distanced, it appears the public are apprehensive to visit.
