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NSW Health Confused The Fancy Michael’s Charcuterie With The Not So Fancy Michel’s Patisserie

"guy who spent the day at Michelle’s Boulangerie still nervously refreshing the page".

by Claire Keenan  25 June 2021
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In the most eastern suburbs news ever, NSW Health has accidentally named a COVID hotspot venue a ‘Patisserie’ when it is actually a ‘Charcuterie’ and is owned by ‘Michael’ not ‘Michel’– an error that could only possibly happen to a venue in Double Bay.

Yesterday, NSW Health had to correct a Double Bay shop’s venue name after it was added wrongly to the close contacts list on their NSW Health website.

The shop was wrongly called ‘Michel’s Patisserie’  — a popular suburban cafe chain — when it is actually named *Michael’s Charcuterie* — an exclusive meats and gourmet sandwich place.

NSW Health tweeted out the correction and highlighted it on the page as soon as they became aware of the stuff up.

For quick context, the close contact list is for people who need to test immediately and self-isolate for 14 days regardless of the results, if they have attended a venue listed. And it’s been extremely vital to tracking the COVID-19 outbreak in Sydney right now – so the stuff up of the name was of course, not great.

But mostly, the jokes on NSW Health for even assuming there would even be a Michel’s Patisserie in the Eastern suburbs, which definitely isn’t fancy enough to compete with the endless patisseries and charcuteries in the area.

Naturally, the slip-up made a lot of people laugh during a pretty scary and unsettling time, and we are all here for it.