BREAKING: There are now two probable coronavirus cases in NSW. 9News
"He was confirmed as positive after a series of tests early this morning," Victorian Health Minister Jenny Mikakos told reporters.
"He was confirmed as positive after a series of tests early this morning," Victorian Health Minister Jenny Mikakos told reporters. Heavy equipment works at a construction site for a field hospital in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province.Australia's chief medical officer Professor Brendan Murphy this morning convened an emergency meeting of the Australian health protection principle committee to discuss this first positive case and discuss the protocol for contact tracing of passengers who sat near the patient on the plane.
The man had been in the city of Wuhan for the past two weeks before arriving in Melbourne last Sunday. "He is not in intensive care. He is being cared for in a negative-pressure isolation room and all infection control precautions are being used both for when he has visitors, but also by health care staff to protect them," she said.
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