4 February 2021 9:56am
The next two days will be “crucial” in Victoria’s fight against COVID-19 following the infection of a Noble Park man, 26, working as a resident support officer as part of the Australian Open quarantine program.
As a result, the ATP Cup Tournament for today has been cancelled, including the match where Greece’s Stefanos Tsitsipas was set to meet his long-time Spanish rival Rafael Nadal.
The Australian Open is scheduled to go ahead on Monday provided the situation is deemed to be under control.
The infected man had worked at the Grand Hyatt on 29 January, the same hotel where Greece’s tennis star Maria Sakkari was in harsh lockdown. The worker had taken a PCR nasal test at the end of is shift and returned a negative test result at the time, however he later developed symptoms and returned a positive result yesterday ending Melbourne’s long coronavirus-free streak of 28 days without community transmission.
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Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins confirms no new community cases in the community or in MIQ and says no-one who catches Covid should be blamed.
Victoria, Australia, will return to harsher Covid-19 restrictions and up to 600 Australian Open players, officials and support staff have been told to isolate and get tested after a hotel quarantine worker tested positive for coronavirus on Wednesday. Premier Daniel Andrews said in a late-night press conference on Wednesday that the state would return to mandatory masks indoors, would reintroduce caps on gatherings to 15 people in a household and would pause the 75 per cent return to work, scheduled to begin on Monday.
A new COVID-19 exposure site has been in identified in Bayside.
If you visited the Northpoint Café, Brighton between 8:10am – 9:30am on Sunday 31st January 2021 you must immediately isolate, get a Coronavirus (COVID-19) test, and remain isolated for 14 days.
Sandringham Hospital is open for testing tomorrow from 8am.
From midnight, 3 February 2021, new statewide restrictions will come into effect:
masks will be mandatory in public indoor spaces
the limit on household gatherings reduces from 30 to 15
the 75% return to work cap will be paused and the current cap of 50% remain in place.
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