Victorian testing site closed after staff member contracts COVID-19 on first day out of lockdown
A Victorian COVID-19 testing site has been closed for deep cleaning after it was revealed a staff member worked two days while possibly infectious.
Brianna McKeeDigital Reporter
July 28, 2021 - 10:23AM
Health Minister Martin Foley has revealed a staff member at a testing site has tested positive to COVID-19 after being infectious in the Victorian community for two days.
The new infection was not included in Wednesday’s case count which included only eight new cases as the state exited 12 days of tough stay-at-home measures.
All of Wednesday’s cases were linked to the current outbreak and were in isolation for the entirety of their infectious period.
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A decision on which restrictions will be eased on Wednesday is still to be finalised after the state recorded 11 new locally acquired cases of coronavirus.
“As we stand here today nothing has yet been finalised,” Victorian Health Minister Martin Foley said on Monday. “But we are mindful of the need, as soon as possible … to share that with the people of Victoria.”
He said the state was “on the right track” but that health authorities would be waiting on testing results due to arrive in the next 24 hours.
There was one new case of COVID-19 in hotel quarantine reported on Monday.
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For a few years now, the principal of Melbourne’s Xavier College, William Doherty, has wanted to do something meaningful beyond apologising to students whose lives have been irreparably damaged by sexual abuse perpetrated at the school in the past.
But with the involvement of lawyers, insurers and religious orders desperate to minimise damage and bad publicity, Xavier had, at times, been “stuck in a culture of fear”, Mr Doherty said. This had stopped it connecting with and supporting former students who have suffered.
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