Share on Twitter
Psychiatric wards at two Melbourne hospitals have been locked down and contact tracing is underway after a worker tested positive to COVID-19.
Premier Daniel Andrews confirmed Victoria s new locally acquired case on Monday is a woman who attended a family function with a COVID-infected hotel quarantine worker on 6 February.
The woman is asymptomatic and was tested four times at the weekend, returning both negative and weak positive results. Given her exposure and the variability of those results, the public health team have taken the most conservative approach and have deemed her a positive case, Mr Andrews told reporters.
Share on Twitter
Authorities are yet to rule out an extension to Victoria s five-day circuit breaker lockdown, as the state records one new locally acquired case of COVID-19.
Premier Daniel Andrews on Monday confirmed the case is a woman who attended a function with an infectious hotel quarantine worker on 6 February.
The woman is asymptomatic and was tested four times at the weekend, returning both negative and weak positive results.
Her three-year-old child tested positive on Sunday. Given her exposure and the variability of those results, the public health team have taken the most conservative approach and have deemed her a positive case, Mr Andrews told reporters.
A Melbourne fruit market has been added to Victoria s growing list of coronavirus exposure sites - as the state recorded two new locally-acquired infections on day four of its snap five-day lockdown.
The two local cases reported on Tuesday are close household contacts of a previously confirmed case linked to the Holiday Inn, taking the outbreak to 19 infections.
Victorian health authorities said there were also two additional cases reported in hotel quarantine from 23,950.
The health update comes as a hot hotel in central Melbourne where Covid-19 infected guests are housed is being evacuated as water damage from a sprinkler system is repaired.
Victoria s health authorities will not rule out extending the state s snap five-day Covid lockdown as new exposure sites are revealed and new details emerge about the Coburg dinner virus spread.
Sunday s two new local coronavirus cases - a toddler and an unrelated hotel quarantine worker - were linked to the Holiday Inn cluster, which has now reached 16 cases.
Both had also attended a private dinner on Sydney Road, Coburg, on February 6.
Melbourne s popular Queen Victoria Market fruit and vegetable section has been named as a new exposure spot on Thursday February 11 from 8.25am to 10.10am along with the women s toilets in section 2.
Victoria recorded one new locally acquired case of coronavirus on Monday
Premier Daniel Andrews and ABC host Leigh Sales engaged in fiery exchange
Ms Sales grilled Mr Andrews over need for a snap statewide five-day lockdown Are you going into. lockdown every time you have two or three new cases?
Mr Andrews refused to say whether the lockdown will end on Wednesday