The latest person to be infected by COVID-19 is a woman in her 20s who is a close contact of the earlier cases and, like them, lives in Gungahlin.
A woman aged in her 20s has become Canberra's fifth confirmed case of COVID-19 in three days.The latest ACT outbreak began when two of the five newly infected people returned to Canberra last week from one of Melbourne's "hot spots".
"I want to be clear — there is a very low risk of transmission from exposure to this individual and her household contacts at Westfield Belconnen, due to the short period of time they attended the location and the fact they didn't come into close contact with anyone else during this period," Dr Coleman said.
"With the events occurring in Victoria and the onset of the influenza season, we will continue to see an upward trend in demand for community testing of COVID-19," she said. The other testing sites include the West Belconnen Child and Family Centre, in the suburb of Holt, and another drive-through clinic at a location yet to be decided.
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