Melissa Cunningham10:04, May 25 2021
Victorian contact tracers are working to identify missing links in a growing coronavirus cluster in Melbourne’s northern suburbs as Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton warns that one of the infected people had been moving around the community with a high viral load. Epidemiologists said one or more undetected cases could have spread the virus beyond the northern suburbs, but Victoria’s Health Minister Martin Foley did not seek to tighten restrictions on Monday or declare a lockdown. The trans-Tasman bubble remains open for now and the New Zealand Ministry of Health is monitoring the situation. The confirmation of the new Covid-19 cases among four family members spread over three households in Melbourne’s outer north on Monday (local time) sent thousands of people into isolation after Highpoint Shopping Centre and a Bundoora swimming school were listed as exposure sites.