Doctors group’s new chief says Australians have fallen victim to collective complacency and there had been a missed opportunity for better education about vaccines.
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.
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.