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Psychiatric wards at two Melbourne hospitals have been locked down and contact tracing is underway after a worker tested positive to COVID-19.
Premier Daniel Andrews confirmed Victoria s new locally acquired case on Monday is a woman who attended a family function with a COVID-infected hotel quarantine worker on 6 February.
The woman is asymptomatic and was tested four times at the weekend, returning both negative and weak positive results. Given her exposure and the variability of those results, the public health team have taken the most conservative approach and have deemed her a positive case, Mr Andrews told reporters.
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Authorities are yet to rule out an extension to Victoria s five-day circuit breaker lockdown, as the state records one new locally acquired case of COVID-19.
Premier Daniel Andrews on Monday confirmed the case is a woman who attended a function with an infectious hotel quarantine worker on 6 February.
The woman is asymptomatic and was tested four times at the weekend, returning both negative and weak positive results.
Her three-year-old child tested positive on Sunday. Given her exposure and the variability of those results, the public health team have taken the most conservative approach and have deemed her a positive case, Mr Andrews told reporters.
A Melbourne fruit market has been added to Victoria s growing list of coronavirus exposure sites - as the state recorded two new locally-acquired infections on day four of its snap five-day lockdown.
The two local cases reported on Tuesday are close household contacts of a previously confirmed case linked to the Holiday Inn, taking the outbreak to 19 infections.
Victorian health authorities said there were also two additional cases reported in hotel quarantine from 23,950.
The health update comes as a hot hotel in central Melbourne where Covid-19 infected guests are housed is being evacuated as water damage from a sprinkler system is repaired.