A Melbourne nursing home is in lockdown after a staff member tested positive for COVID-19. A kindergarten teacher has also tested positive, among the 10 new coronavirus cases in Victoria in the last day.
Victoria may see a spike in coronavirus cases and other viruses from next week, the state's Deputy Chief Health Officer, Dr Annaliese van Diemen, warns.
Victoria’s Deputy Chief Health Officer, Dr Annaliese van Diemen, says authorities are bracing for an increase in COVID-19 cases and other viruses too.The incubation period for COVID-19 is anywhere between two and 14 days, but Dr van Diemen said that in most cases in Victoria people had fallen ill at the 6-10 day mark.Physical distancing, hand washing, and very good cough and sneeze etiquette are crucial to stopping the spread of COVID-19 now that more people are out in the community, she added.
Further tests returned negative results, confirming Mr Turner did not have the virus. Those results were passed on to Dr Young last night."I don’t believe there was any more that could have been done that night," she says of the initial test, which was then relayed publicly the following day."I had a positive test result in the context of a gentleman who had a four-week history of flu-like illness.
Dr Young also praised the "tremendous response" of residents in the central Queensland mining down, 605 of whom had come forward for testing and returned negative results.Queensland's Health Minister Steven Miles has apologised to the family of the 30-year-old Blackwater man believed to be the nation’s youngest person to die with COVID-19, who has since tested negative to the virus.
"That worker is self-isolating at home and all staff and visitors are considered to be close contacts and will be put into quarantine," Health Minister Jenny Mikakos said at her press conference a short time ago.
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