Virus detectives have uncovered the source of Sydney's ballooning Crossroads Hotel cluster, tracing the contagion back to a work party held at the pub where up to three people were infected by a colleague visiting from Melbourne | Kaubo
Dr Chant set a new testing target of more than 23,000 swabs per day. "In this period we need to be increasingly vigilant," she said.
"So as far as we know, this outbreak is well known to us and we've identified all links, at this point in time, but we'll get new cases and we'll have to identify further links with them and for the contacts and get them all to go into isolation as well." Dr Chant said the main precautions should be to stay home if you have any symptoms. "Stay isolated, and get tested. Hand hygiene and social distancing were the next lines of defence. Wearing a mask was the fourth line of defence, she said.
Dr Chant said she needed a "two-week period of assurance" to confirm virus detectives had blocked the chains of transmission from the Crossroads outbreak.
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