New Victorian COVID-19 case linked to Southbank complex - The Age

Victoria has recorded one new local COVID-19 infection, a primary close contact of an earlier identified case at the Kings Park apartment complex in Southbank, as traces of the virus were detected in wastewater in north-east Melbourne.

The Department of Health said the individual had been in quarantine throughout their infectious period.

“I thank those people for the extraordinary efforts they’ve put in over the last two weeks,” Mr Foley said.

“They’re now moving into their day-13 tests over the weekend, and they’ve shown extraordinary endurance, and I want to thank them directly, for keeping themselves safe and doing their bit to keep all Victorian safe or going well.

The state also recorded three overseas acquired cases in the past 24 hours, as state authorities administered 19,807 vaccine doses and processed 21,595 tests over the same period.

Wastewater detection in Melbourne’s north-east

Health officials also flagged the detection of traces of COVID-19 in a wastewater catchment in Melbourne’s north-east.

The catchment takes in the north and north-eastern suburbs of Lower Plenty, Briar Hill, Bundoora,
Diamond Creek, Greensborough, Plenty, Macleod, Mill Park, South Morang, St Helena, Viewbank, Watsonia, Watsonia North, Yallambie and Yarrambat.

Victorian Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton urged anyone in the those suburbs to get a COVID-19 test if they have any symptoms.

“This could be a historical case continuing to shed virus, but we are asking anyone who lives in or who has visited the suburbs to please watch out for the slightest of symptoms and come forward and get tested at one of the many local testing sites,” Professor Sutton said.

Sydney records 29 new cases

At a press conference on Saturday morning NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian warned that lockdowns might be extended across more regions of Sydney after the state recorded 29 new cases of COVID-19 in the community overnight.

Ms Berejiklian said 17 of those cases were spoken about yesterday.

These additional cases have been to exposure sites outside the four Sydney local government areas which have already been locked down.

Two new Delta cases unvaccinated

The new cases in Melbourne and Sydney come as The Age can reveal the two men who tested positive to COVID-19 in Melbourne after one of them attended a Sydney “super-spreader event” were both unvaccinated despite being aged over 60.

The two men – who work at a Sandringham dry cleaning store and are aged 61 and 63 – are both yet to be vaccinated.

A government source confirmed the pair had not received a jab, which significantly decreases the likelihood of infection and transmitting the virus.

Victorian health officials on Friday said they were unaware why NSW’s Health Department had not contacted the man who attended his daughter’s social event in Sydney over the weekend.

It is unclear whether the daughter included the man on her list of people who attended the event.
The first dry cleaner worker to test positive attended work on Wednesday morning after feeling symptoms on Tuesday night.

Genomic testing has shown the two men have been infected with the highly contagious Delta variant of coronavirus.

The Oakleigh man unknowingly carried the virus back to Victoria and passed it onto his boss at the dry-cleaning business.

Victorian contact tracers are now chasing down 126 passengers and additional crew from the Sydney-Melbourne flight, as well as about 100 customers who visited the dry-cleaning business.

The owner of the dry-cleaning outlet, Henry Li, who has run the business for 19 years, told 3AW’s Neil Mitchell on Friday that he and his employee wore masks at all times, used hand sanitiser and followed other precautions, but the virus had clearly spread when the pair worked together for just a couple of hours on Wednesday.

“This is horrible because we were really careful with everything. We still got it,” Mr Li said. “I don’t know what’s happened. We wore masks at work and used sanitiser to clean our hands.”

Increased border controls

Motorists who enter Victoria from NSW without a valid permit could be fined almost $5000 as police enforce new “red zone” rules along the border between the two states.

Greater Sydney and Wollongong were classified as red zones by Victorian authorities on Thursday, with the new rules came into effect on Friday.

The classification means non-residents of Victoria who have visited those areas will be barred from entering the state unless they qualify for an exemption.

Victorian residents can apply for permits to return home, but will have to self-quarantine for 14 days from arrival. They are also required to get a COVID-19 test within 72 hours of entering Victoria and then return a negative day-13 result before exiting isolation.

Police monitor cars entering Victoria at Wodonga on Friday.

However, Victorian residents won’t be eligible for a permit if they’ve been to a very high-risk exposure site in a red zone in the past 14 days, are a close contact of someone with COVID-19, or have been diagnosed with the virus.

Victoria Police confirmed late on Friday that 260 police officers would now be completing patrols of the border, with pop-up checkpoints and automatic number plate recognition being used to nab those entering the state in contravention of the new rules.

In a statement, a spokeswoman for Victoria Police said “this will support the current vehicle patrols around the NSW border working to identify car registration details and vehicles who may have travelled from NSW, including those who may have been in a red zone”.

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