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A close contact of one of those cases also returned a positive result on Tuesday morning, before four members of his family tested positive on Tuesday afternoon.
The first five cases have been linked through genomic testing to a Melbourne man who tested positive more than two weeks ago and who is suspected of becoming infected while in hotel quarantine in South Australia.
Cases 10 to 15 include workplace contacts of case nine.
The Curry Vault restaurant in Bank Place, in the CBD, was named an exposure site after a Wollert man who contracted coronavirus dined there earlier this month.
Melissa Cunningham, Ashleigh McMillan, David Estcourt21:41, May 24 2021
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Covid-19 testing takes place at a pop-up clinic in Melbourne, Australia as four new cases were announced and there’s a hunt for a missing link.
Despite four new community cases of Covid-19 in Melbourne, New Zealand will not be suspending flights to the Victorian capital, the Ministry of Health has announced. However, testing and isolation will be required for those who have been in any of the locations of interest in Melbourne - including those who have travelled back to New Zealand in recent days. The confirmation of new Covid-19 cases in Melbourne has sent thousands of people in Australia into isolation for two weeks as authorities concede there may be a missing link between the new outbreak and a positive case in the city a fortnight ago.
Melissa Cunningham, Ashleigh McMillan, David Estcourt19:08, May 24 2021
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Covid-19 testing takes place at a pop-up clinic in Melbourne, Australia as four new cases announced and there’s a hunt for a missing link.
The confirmation of four new Covid-19 cases in Melbourne has sent thousands of people in Australia into isolation for two weeks as authorities concede there may be a missing link between the new outbreak and a positive case in the city a fortnight ago. Highpoint Shopping Centre in Maribyrnong in Melbourne’s west and a swim school in the northern suburb of Bundoora have been added to the list of primary exposure sites after two men, a woman and a child from the Whittlesea area in the city’s outer north tested positive to coronavirus.
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