Coronavirus as it happened: Victorian household gatherings limited, masks made mandatory indoors after Melbourne hotel quarantine worker tests positive for COVID-19; WA lockdown continues

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Victoria has tightened rules for mask-wearing and visiting private homes after a worker at a quarantine hotel for Australian Open participants tested positive to COVID-19

Quarantine worker provided detailed informationThe hotel quarantine worker who tested positive to coronavirus has provided detailed information to health authorities, says Chief Health Officer Professor Brett Sutton.

“This is a test that’s come through in the afternoon. We’ve already ramped up every aspect of the response that we know needs to be in place to get ahead of it.” “There’s a number of five or six hundred people that are either players, officials [or] others who are casual contacts,” he said. “He has provided very detailed information and we’re very grateful to him for his work but also for the way in which, as a positive case he has provided all that detail, that means that that contact tracing is never easy,” he said.

Mr Andrews said the restrictions were similar to those in force during the New Year period due to the Black Rock cluster.“All of us across this state, having been through everything we’ve been through, having been as a community so united, and had that real sense of purpose to this thing. I’m confident that we all know what we have to do.”Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has urged caution in face of the new case of COVID-19 in a hotel quarantine worker.

 

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Why doesn't daily testing continue for a set number of days after quarantine staff come off shift? Surely this not happening is a significant oversite.

FFS send the tennis players home.. WGAF about the tennis this year.

idonotstandwithdan

Well done dan you fly the virus in and spread it to us all now we gone backwards so you can save your tennis and now we all suffer again thanks for keeping us all safe

Quarantine has to be moved out of the cities and not staffed by low paid hotel and security staff. The community deserves greater levels of circuit breaking distancing. Frontline staff cannot walk out of work and into multiple city venues. Every state has got it wrong to date.

LOOKS LIKE DAN ANDREWS IS GOING TO FART AGAIN...THE SKY IS FALLING...STOCK UP ON TOILET PAPER NOW, STATE OF EMERGENCY TO BE RUSHED THROUGH PARLIAMENT.

This is a pay back for taking up risks to go a head with the AO. Victorian already said NO to the AO

1 bloody case . No way I’m complying with this shit again .

But why do regional vic have to have restrictions just crazy

All the tennis players will be quarantined by Monday for Australian Open.

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