Summary
- Victoria has recorded three new coronavirus infections today - two locally acquired cases and one in hotel quarantine. One new case emerged on Saturday, a man in his 30s who attended a Coburg function centre and is a friend of a Holiday Inn staff member with the virus. Those cases bring the Holiday Inn cluster to 16, while there are 21 active cases in the state.
- The Victorian government has stuck by its claim a returned traveller since hospitalised with coronavirus didn’t declare a nebuliser at the Holiday Inn hotel. The 38-year-old returned traveller insisted hotel quarantine staff were aware that he had the device and that they had even offered to source more of the medication administered by the machine.
- NSW has recorded its 28th consecutive day without a locally acquired COVID-19 case, the state’s longest period with zero cases since the beginning of the pandemic. Sydney residents returning from Melbourne will be forced into a five-day lockdown after Victorian health officials privately conceded that contact tracers took too long to get in touch with people exposed in Melbourne’s new coronavirus outbreak.
- Queensland has recorded no new local cases of COVID-19 for the 38th consecutive day. More than 1500 travellers who may have been exposed to the virus at Melbourne Airport’s Terminal 4 before flying to Queensland have been contacted, told to get tested and quarantine in their homes for 14 days from when they were last in greater Melbourne.
- Greek tennis player Michail Pervolarakis says he has tested positive for coronavirus upon arrival in South Africa after flying there – via Doha – from Melbourne.
Watch live: Victorian COVID-19 update
Victoria’s Health Minister Martin Foley, Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton and COVID-response commander Jeroen Weimar are holding a press conference in Melbourne. You can watch the press conference live, below:
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Viral fragments found in Reservoir, Southbank, South Melbourne wastewater
By Hanna Mills Turbet
Victoria’s COVID-19 response commander Jeroen Weimar has urged residents of Melbourne’s north and south to be vigilant after viral fragments were found in wastewater in Coburg and South Melbourne.
“We have two detections that we are currently investigating. One is in the Coburg catchments which takes in Coburg, Coburg North, and the other is in the south of Melbourne, that Punt Road, Clarendon Street area, which we are keen to understand more of,” he said.
“We do have a couple of exposure sites, a few cafes in that area that are listed on our website, so I would really encourage people who are in Reservoir, Southbank, South Melbourne to be extra vigilant and come forward to be tested if you have any symptoms.”
Foley refuses to comment on original Holiday Inn case
By Hanna Mills Turbet
For the second day running, the Victorian government is dodging questions about the circumstances and detail surrounding the hotel quarantine stay of the man accused of sparking the latest outbreak.
Premier Daniel Andrews is not at today’s press conference, and Health Minister Martin Foley said he would not comment on individual cases.
The Holiday Inn at Melbourne Airport.Credit:Penny Stephens
“What everyone put on the record yesterday is on the record. I am the Minister for Health and this is a public health emergency. Since I have been the Minister for Health I have made it crystal clear that I do not comment on individual cases and put people and families through trauma,” he said.
“And I will not be starting that today. This family needs to put all of its efforts into getting well. That is my message and what is on the record from yesterday stands on the record.”
Mother of COVID-infected child is a suspected case
The child who is among today’s two new cases in Victoria is three years old and contracted coronavirus after attending a private family function in Coburg.
The three-year-old attends Goodstart Early Learning Centre in Glenroy in Melbourne’s north.
Authorities have now turned their attention to the child’s mother, who may also have the virus.
The mother has returned three separate test results in the last 24 hours, all with differing conclusions.
“Our epidemiologists and specialists are working with her and with our labs to be clear about the nature of what possible infection she may have, whether she is at the start of our infectious period or whether she is coming towards the end,” Victoria’s testing commander Jeroen Weimar said.
“Serology is being done, and we will work out over the next few hours exactly where this individual stands. She does have some workplace contacts, particularly with Alfred Health, and we are working closely with them to do preliminary testing, precautionary testing, of her potential contacts.”
Victoria’s two new cases linked to Holiday Inn cluster, Health Minister confirms
By Hanna Mills Turbet
Victoria’s two new COVID-19 cases are both linked to the Holiday Inn cluster, bringing the total number of linked cases connected to the outbreak to 16, Health Minister Martin Foley has confirmed.
The two new cases are directly linked to yesterday’s case, a man from Point Cook aged in his 30s, who attended a private function in Coburg with extended relatives.
The Sydney Road venue in Coburg (centre) that’s been listed as a COVID-19 exposure site has a ‘for lease’ sign and material across the windows, unoccupied.Credit:Ashleigh McMillan
“The two most recent cases are a child and a woman, both who attended a private dining venue in Sydney Road, Coburg, on the night of February 6. They are from separate households,” Mr Foley said.
“Both have been in isolation since February 12 and both tested and returned a positive sample in isolation on February 13.”
The latest exposure sites listed by the Department of Health this morning – two aquatic centres, a bakery and a Woolworths supermarket – are related to the woman and child.
Mr Foley said the number of close contacts linked to the Holiday Inn cluster had reduced from 996 yesterday to 940 today.
Of the 940 today, 129 are direct family members, work colleagues and other immediate close contacts.
“This is the closest ring to those cluster members at the moment. Of that 129, 127 have tested negative and two further test results are due shortly,” Mr Foley said.
Three new community cases in New Zealand after potential quarantine breach
It’s just after 2pm in New Zealand where authorities have announced that three people in South Auckland, outside hotel quarantine, have contracted COVID-19.
A father, mother and daughter from the same family have tested positive, stuff.co.nz reports. The mother works for LSG Skychefs, which services planes at the airport.
It comes after two COVID-19 cases were reported in managed isolation on Saturday.
Detained refugees forced to isolate after guard shows COVID-19 symptoms
By Hanna Mills Turbet
A dozen refugees detained at the Park Hotel in Carlton, in Melbourne’s inner-north, remain confined to their hotel rooms after they were informed late on Saturday night a security guard was showing coronavirus symptoms and had been told to isolate.
A Bangladeshi refugee at the Carlton hotel.Credit:Chris Hopkins
Ian Rintoul, from the Refugee Action Coalition, said the Medevac refugees, all men, were told a Serco officer who had worked at the hotel on Friday night was being tested for coronavirus and that the refugees should stay in their rooms.
Mr Rintoul said the men were informed by internal loudspeaker about 11pm on Saturday that they would be tested for coronavirus on Sunday morning. They are still waiting.
The 12 refugees were among a group of 60 people moved to the Park Hotel from the Mantra in Preston in December last year. The rest of the men were released into temporary accommodation on the outskirts of Melbourne in January.
Victoria recorded three new cases of coronavirus on Sunday - two locally acquired and one in hotel quarantine - but there are no recorded cases of COVID-19 linked to the Park Hotel in Carlton.
Serco has been contacted for comment.
One less active case in Victoria
Keeping with numbers for a moment ... Victoria’s Department of Health says there are now 21 active cases in the state, down from the 22 reported earlier.
It is not yet clear why one case has been removed from the tally, but we will aim to bring you an explanation shortly.
Queensland records no new cases on Sunday
By Stuart Layt
The numbers are also in for Queensland, and the Sunshine State has recorded no new cases of COVID-19, neither in the community nor in hotel quarantine.
It comes after Queensland Health confirmed late on Saturday that they had contacted all of the approximately 1500 people who were at terminal 4 at Melbourne Airport – a high-risk coronavirus exposure site – before travelling into the state.
They have all been told to get tested and quarantine in their homes for 14 days from when they were last in greater Melbourne.
Extra contact tracers were called in to help with contacting the cohort of people as soon as possible.
Queensland currently has seven active cases, all detected in hotel quarantine, with 6217 tests conducted in the 24 hours to Sunday.
Zero new local cases in NSW
By Pallavi Singhal
NSW has recorded its 28th consecutive day without a locally acquired COVID-19 case, the state’s longest period with zero community cases since the beginning of the pandemic.
“The previous longest stretch without local cases was 26 days, when there were no cases diagnosed in the reporting cycles between 8pm on November 6 and 8pm on December 2, 2020,” NSW Health reported on Sunday.
“While this milestone is pleasing, it does not mean we can drop our guard. Cases are present in other states and are regularly being detected among international travellers arriving from overseas.”
The milestone comes amidst new requirements that anyone who returned to NSW from Victoria after midnight on Friday, February 12, must comply with the five-day “circuit-breaker” lockdown in place in Victoria after more than a dozen cases were linked to the Holiday Inn quarantine hotel outbreak.
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