NSW recorded 17 new cases overnight from more than 20,000 tests. One of the cases was in hotel quarantine and the other 16 were locally acquired. Follow the latest coronavirus coverage here
The total number of active coronavirus cases in New Zealand has begun to fall, with five new cases reported on Wednesday.
“That number is actually coming down because some of the first cases…are now recovered and back home,” he said. Mr Hipkins and the Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield said the source of the second-wave outbreak had still not been discovered, but work continued to try and determine the source.
Professor Sutton said cases were being detected in local government areas of Brimbank and Wyndham in the west as well as Casey and Greater Dandenong in the east. “[The investigation] where you're actually looking at everyone they've been in contact with not just when they're infectious, but in the 14 days before they became symptomatic."The heads of security firms subcontracted to Victoria's quarantine hotels say guards had to be trained in COVID-19 before they started their first shift.Sam Aggarwal from Sterling Security at the Victorian inquiry into hotel quarantine on Wednesday.
Sterling Security's Sam Aggarwal said not only was there plenty of personal protective equipment available at Rydges, but all guards were told to complete an online training module on COVID-19 before they started.He said Unified Security also inducted guards at the hotel before they started their first shift.
"The AOs were changing like security guards...with each new AO that was coming in there was a new set of instructions provided to the guards," Mr Gupta said.Loading
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