Cases linked to Sandringham dry cleaners grows to two - The Age

The outbreak linked to a bayside dry cleaners has grown to two after the owner of the business tested positive to COVID-19 on Thursday.

The 61-year-old owner of the business, who lives in Burwood East and is the boss of the Melbourne man who tested positive after a trip to Sydney, is due to be transferred to a quarantine hotel to isolate, Nine News Melbourne reports.

His four family members have also been tested, are isolating and are awaiting their results.

The first positive case connected to the dry cleaner, a man who lives in Oakleigh, may have had contact with as many as 100 people over the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday that he worked, his boss says.

The business was operating a QR code system, which they intend to pass to the government. The man said he doesn’t have any symptoms.

The growing Sydney coronavirus outbreak has sparked a fresh alert in Melbourne after the infected man flew into the city at the weekend.

Victorian authorities clarified that the man did attend a West Hoxton birthday party that had been described as a “super spreading event”.

Earlier in the day, the government had said the man had gone to a smaller birthday party, but they confirmed late on Thursday that he was in fact at the West Hoxton party.

Authorities have started genomic testing to trace the origin of the new case to determine the variant.

The dry cleaners has now been listed as a tier-1 location from 9am to 4pm on June 21, 10am to 3pm on June 22 and 7.30am to 5.30pm on June 23. Anyone who attended the business needs to isolate for 14 days and get tested for COVID-19.

Facebook photo showing notice in window at Sandringham Dry Cleaners, closed due to staff member testing positive to COVID-19.

On Thursday afternoon, Victorian authorities released the flight details and an airport terminal exposure site linked to the Oakleigh man who returned from NSW.

The 60-year-old man from the south-eastern suburbs flew to Melbourne on Jetstar flight JQ523, which departed at 5.30pm on Sunday. The man also attended terminal 4 at the airport between 6.55pm-7.40pm.

On Thursday night, more than 100 authorised officers were stationed at Melbourne Airport and regional airports meeting all arriving Sydney flights. Of the 18 flights that landed in Victoria to 6pm on Wednesday, almost 2000 passengers were screened and 172 red zone arrivals were recorded, the health department said.

The police presence along Victoria’s border with NSW will be significantly increased in light of Victoria declaring all of Greater Sydney and Wollongong red zones from 1am on Friday. The NSW Central Coast, Shellharbour, Blue Mountains and Wollongong have been declared an orange zone retrospectively between June 11 and the time they became a red zone.

The Oakleigh man travelled to his home before working during the week at the Sandringham dry cleaners.

He began feeling sick on Tuesday night and was tested on Wednesday morning.

People are generally infectious - meaning they can pass the virus onto others - about 48 hours before displaying symptoms.

The man was on a flight about 48 hours before feeling sick, meaning the flight is set to be a key focus of contact tracers’ efforts in coming days.

Alongside exposure sites at the dry cleaner, at Melbourne Airport and on the flight, the man also visited Coles Oakleigh Central, in Oakleigh, between 9.15am and 9.45am on June 30. The supermarket is now listed as a tier 2 site.

The man was also on the 901 bus route between Melbourne Airport/Grants Road to Broadmeadows Station/Pascoe Vale Road (Broadmeadows) on June 20 between 7.42pm and 7.55pm. This is also a tier 2 site.

The government added several more exposure sites late on Thursday night including shops at Forest Hill Chase Shopping Centre, a Woolworth in Burwood East and a convenience story in Black Rock. They are all listed as Tier 2 sites.

Victoria’s COVID-19 commander, Jeroen Weimar, said details of the man’s movements were being examined and there would be a small number of exposure sites.

Mr Weimar said the man had not yet been contacted by NSW contact-tracing workers and it was not known if he had been vaccinated.

“[There] could be a range of reasons for that,” he said. “His information may not have been on that system, they may not have known he was there. We need to give everybody a bit of time to work through exactly what’s happened.”

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