UFS primary care operations manager Danielle Trezise confirmed the federal health department had signed off on an extra consult space at the Lucas Community Hub by lunchtime on Wednesday.

This will take the facilities' total screening rooms to five ahead of a move to increase operational hours from Monday, starting slightly earlier at 8am and running until 10pm on week nights.

The Lucas clinic has been running at capacity, screening up to 250 people per day, since Premier Daniel Andrews started to tighten lockdowns in Melbourne.

Testing in Lucas is by appointment only and waits have been averaging three days, plus a conservative two-to-three days' wait for results from pathology. Urgent cases and essential workers are given priority.

Anyone with even the mildest cold and flu-like symptoms is expected to self-isolate in this whole time, as is the rest of the affected person's household.

Delays in Ballarat, as UFS has lobbied to keep up with the rising demand, has drawn concerns from medical practitioners across the region delays would encourage complacency across the community.

Australian Medical Association Victoria president Julian Rait also voiced his concern at the lack of more testing options in a city the size of Ballarat.

Ballarat Health Services acute operations director Ben Kelly told The Courier on Tuesday the health service had also been in talks with Ballarat Community Health to develop a second respiratory assessment clinic.

Ballarat Community Health did not respond to The Courier's queries about a fever clinic on Wednesday.

There were 1,931 active cases recorded in Victoria on Wednesday.

Ballarat has remained without any known COVID-19 cases since mid-May but there are three active cases in the Golden Plains Shire with at least two to have been tested via the Lucas clinic.

BHS, in a statement to media on Wednesday morning, was made aware of one of these cases in the region but said the infected individual had not needed to be hospitalised and was instead being care for at home.

A further two infected persons are in the Moorabool Shire but it was unclear in which area of the shire, which stretches across southern Ballarat to Bacchus Marsh.

Mr Kelly has told The Courier the Victorian health department's directive for Ballarat and its surrounding region was to focus on testing people with potential COVID-19 symptoms.

He said restricted movement in and out of Melbourne was also a vital preventative measure for regional Victoria.

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