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Sydney coronavirus outbreak spreads to Victoria as a man tests positive after returning from the city’s northern beaches epicentre
A person in Victoria has tested positive to COVID-19 after returning from Sydney’s Northern Beaches – where there is a cluster of 83 cases.
The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) said contact tracing is underway but ‘close contacts are understood to be limited’ as they announced the new case on Tuesday.
‘Victoria has recorded 0 cases in 53 days, however one positive case from a returned Victorian traveller was acquired within the Northern Beaches area of NSW,’ the DHHS announced.
‘At this stage, there are no exposure sites, but if this change we will provide further updates.
‘Anyone who has retuned from the Northern Beaches area, Greater Sydney or the Central Coast needs to get tested and quarantine for 14 days.’
The state also recorded two new cases from overseas arrivals in hotel quarantine but has not recorded any cases of local transmission for 53 consecutive days.
All those who have visited the Northern Beaches since December 11 have been banned from entering Victoria since Saturday.
This means the new case likely entered the state before Saturday, which is completely legal.
On Monday, Victoria declared all of Sydney and the NSW Central Coast a COVID-19 ‘red zone’, which means all those who visited since December 11 face 14 days mandatory hotel quarantine upon entry.
People dashed across the border on Monday so they could isolate at home for Christmas and New Years rather than in hotel quarantine.
More to come.
