Last modified on Sun 14 Feb 2021 03.14 EST
Victoria’s top health officials have defended the state’s testing and contact tracing systems as two new cases linked to the Holiday Inn outbreak were reported, taking the Melbourne cluster to 16.
The new cases – a three-year-old child and a woman from a separate household – attended a family function at a private venue on Sydney Road in Coburg last weekend. They have been isolating since 12 February.
The child’s mother could be another possible case – she has returned three conflicting test results over the past 24 hours. The state’s head of contact tracing, Jeroen Weimar, told reporters on Sunday that tracing for her was under way including contacting staff at Alfred Health where the woman worked.
The Australian Open is on high alert after a player who had close contact with at least one of the leading men’s contenders tested positive to COVID-19.
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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
Michail Pervolarakis in action for Team Greece during this year s ATP Cup (Getty)
Pervolarakis confirmed the news of his positive test in a statement on his personal Instagram account. Hi everyone. After a 24-plus hour travel day from Australia South Africa, I ve been diagnosed positive to COVID-19, he wrote on his Instagram story. I am completely asymptomatic at the moment I will have to quarantine in an isolation facility in Potchefstroom. I am not a person that complains, but I feel that I need to express my disappointment with the conditions we are in.
Shortly after his original post, Pervolarakis confirmed he returned a negative test in Melbourne before departing Australia, speculating he contracted the virus during his journey.