As NSW prepares to allow crowds of 10,000 people back into sports stadiums, Health Minister Brad Hazzard has told Melburnians they are not welcome at the venues until Victoria contains its swelling coronavirus outbreaks.
Australia's death toll rose to 104 after the passing of an 85-year-old Bankstown man two months ago was retrospectively deemed to be coronavirus-related on Thursday.
NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard says Victorians will not be permitted to attend sporting matches in the state. Credit:AAP
Health authorities are also warning more cases will be detected in Sydney before the weekend after a seven-year-old student at Lane Cove West Primary School tested positive on Wednesday.
Victoria's coronavirus resurgence continued on Thursday, with 33 new cases - the ninth consecutive day of double-digit transmissions and the biggest increase in more than two months.
More than 1000 military troops were called in to help contain the virus linked to large family clusters circulating in Melbourne.
NSW Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant said her state's residents should avoid Melbourne, a stance also taken by Premier Gladys Berejiklian. Dr Chant warned returning residents to take special precautions and present for testing even if they develop mild symptoms.
“Anyone who has come from Melbourne hot spots, including NSW residents, should not attend aged care facilities, hospitals or other settings with vulnerable people and should avoid gatherings outside their immediate family for a period of 14 days,” she said.
From July 1, up to 10,000 people will be allowed into 40,000-seat stadiums in NSW, but Mr Hazzard told Melburnians not to go.
“Don't expect to be able to come because they're not selling tickets to you and we don't want you to come,” he said.
Ms Berejiklian had earlier warned NSW residents not to welcome family and friends from Melbourne into their homes during the school holidays.
On Thursday, NSW Health reported an 85-year-old man who died on April 27 has been "reclassified" as a COVID-19 death.
He was part of a cluster of cases at the Opal Aged Care nursing home in Bankstown and had tested negative twice before his death, but the virus had weakened his condition, Dr Chant said.
NSW Health also confirmed the first new community-acquired case in 10 days in a seven-year-old student at Lane Cove West Primary School.
Dr Chant said the diagnosis of the year 2 student was evidence the virus was still active in the community "albeit at very low levels".
The school was closed for deep cleaning on Thursday and contact tracers are identifying the student’s close contacts.
Mr Hazzard said the child’s symptoms started on Saturday “so hopefully there was no transmission at the school".
But health authorities expected more people would test positive for COVID-19 in Sydney before the weekend.
"We expect that in the next 24 hours we'll be talking about at least one, possibly more, cases of transmission,” Mr Hazzard said.
"This is no time for NSW residents to be complacent or cocky. We need the community in Sydney particularly, but also in NSW, to realise that this virus is still amongst us.
"Just one person could seed this virus to many other people."
NSW recorded four new cases in the latest 24-hour reporting period, including the seven-year-old.
The other three cases were returned travellers in hotel quarantine, taking the total number of cases in NSW to 3162.
A man in his 30s diagnosed with COVID-19 earlier this week was a false-positive, NSW Health confirmed. The south-western Sydney man is the fourth false-positive reported in three days.
A total of 17,175 tests were carried out in the reporting period.
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Kate Aubusson is Health Editor of The Sydney Morning Herald.
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