May be a missing link between Sydney COVID-19 cases and US traveller 06/05/2021|7min
New South Wales Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant said there is a possibility of a missing link between the two locally acquired COVID-19 cases and a US traveller in hotel quarantine who share the same virus strain.
“The sequence from our new cases matched with the overseas case who has travelled from the US and went to the Park Royal at Darling Harbour, the person was tested on day one and was positive and was moved to the SHA, the Sydney Health Accommodation, on the 28th [of May],” she said.
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New South Wales has recorded one new community case of COVID-19, a day after a man from Sydney s eastern suburbs also tested positive for the virus.
The new case is the wife of a man in his 50s who visited several locations between Friday and Sunday while infectious. Nine other close contacts have returned negative tests overnight.
Health authorities have been unable to determine the source of his infection, sparking fears the virus could be circulating undetected in the community.
READ MORE While we remain on high alert, pleasingly, at this stage, nobody else has been identified as being a positive case, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian told reporters on Thursday.
The Sydney couple who have mysteriously tested positive to coronavirus are infected by the double mutant Indian variant of the disease.
The B.1.617 strain was identified in the subcontinent in October, with two key mutations to the outer-spike protein that helps the virus bind and enter cells.
The couple have the second of three subvariants known as B.1.617.2. Scientists are not yet sure if the strain is more infectious or more deadly than original Covid, but many fear it probably is.
The Sydney couple who have mysteriously tested positive to coronavirus are infected by the double mutant Indian variant of the disease. Pictured: A Sydney commuter
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May.1.2021
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