Victorian health authorities have revealed concerning details about stranger to stranger transmission of COVID-19 that sent the state into a snap seven-day lockdown.
COVID-19 testing commander Jeroen Weimar singled out Melbourne shopping centres as venues of most concern where transmission may have occurred through very fleeting contact . They don t know each other s names. That s very different to where we have been before, Mr Weimar said.
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Queues build at a pop-up COVID-19 test site at Albert Park Lake in Melbourne.(Daniel Pockett / Getty Images) What we re seeing now is people are brushing past each other in a small shop, they are going to display home, they are looking at photos in a Telstra shop.