New local Vic case linked to outbreak - The Islander

Victoria has recorded one locally acquired case of coronavirus on the third day of its "circuit breaker" lockdown. The Health Department confirmed there were two new cases on Monday, the other being a returned traveller in hotel quarantine. It brings the total number of active cases in the state to 21. More than 25,000 Victorians were tested for the virus on Sunday, the highest single-day total for more than a month. The department confirmed the new locally acquired case is the mother of a three-year-old child who tested positive to the virus on Sunday. Victoria's Cheif Health Officer Brett Sutton old reporters on Sunday the woman had returned three conflicting test results in 24 hours. The woman and her child, as well as a woman aged in her 50s, contracted the virus after attending a family function on Sydney Road in Coburg on February 6. The function was attended by 38 people including a worker from the Holiday Inn quarantine hotel at Melbourne Airport, who had returned a negative test result on February 7. The venue was not listed as an exposure site until February 12, two days after the hotel quarantine worker eventually tested positive. Professor Sutton said a review of the worker's negative test on February 7 found it was a "false negative". "To be a weak positive but to be infectious enough to actually cause infection in other people at an event is very unusual," he said. Some 17 people linked to the Melbourne Aiport Holiday Inn have tested positive for COVID-19. But Burnet Institute epidemiologist Michael Toole said the Coburg function does not appear to be a super-spreading event. "Those two people at the Coburg site were infected about a week ago or were exposed a week ago. We haven't had any other cases outside of close contacts, so that's looking good," he told 3AW radio. Professor Toole said he supported the five-day precautionary lockdown. "It was shown in Brisbane and Perth that this approach does work," he said. "It looks like there hasn't been extensive spread here." Health Minister Martin Foley would not be drawn on whether Victorians could be confident the "circuit breaker" lockdown would not be extended beyond Wednesday. "It is too early to say whether we have been successful," he told reporters on Sunday. "But the signs show Victorians are doing the right thing, backing each other and our test, trace and isolate system is staying ahead of this. "We will continue to monitor it on a day-by-day basis; really it is up to the shared effort of all Victorians." Australian Associated Press

Victoria has recorded one locally acquired case of coronavirus on the third day of its "circuit breaker" lockdown.

The Health Department confirmed there were two new cases on Monday, the other being a returned traveller in hotel quarantine.

It brings the total number of active cases in the state to 21.

More than 25,000 Victorians were tested for the virus on Sunday, the highest single-day total for more than a month.

The department confirmed the new locally acquired case is the mother of a three-year-old child who tested positive to the virus on Sunday.

Victoria's Cheif Health Officer Brett Sutton old reporters on Sunday the woman had returned three conflicting test results in 24 hours.

The woman and her child, as well as a woman aged in her 50s, contracted the virus after attending a family function on Sydney Road in Coburg on February 6.

The function was attended by 38 people including a worker from the Holiday Inn quarantine hotel at Melbourne Airport, who had returned a negative test result on February 7.

The venue was not listed as an exposure site until February 12, two days after the hotel quarantine worker eventually tested positive.

Professor Sutton said a review of the worker's negative test on February 7 found it was a "false negative".

"To be a weak positive but to be infectious enough to actually cause infection in other people at an event is very unusual," he said.

Some 17 people linked to the Melbourne Aiport Holiday Inn have tested positive for COVID-19.

But Burnet Institute epidemiologist Michael Toole said the Coburg function does not appear to be a super-spreading event.

"Those two people at the Coburg site were infected about a week ago or were exposed a week ago. We haven't had any other cases outside of close contacts, so that's looking good," he told 3AW radio.

Professor Toole said he supported the five-day precautionary lockdown.

"It was shown in Brisbane and Perth that this approach does work," he said.

"It looks like there hasn't been extensive spread here."

Health Minister Martin Foley would not be drawn on whether Victorians could be confident the "circuit breaker" lockdown would not be extended beyond Wednesday.

"It is too early to say whether we have been successful," he told reporters on Sunday.

"But the signs show Victorians are doing the right thing, backing each other and our test, trace and isolate system is staying ahead of this.

"We will continue to monitor it on a day-by-day basis; really it is up to the shared effort of all Victorians."

Australian Associated Press

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