The state’s COVID-19 commander is concerned that transmission is occurring between people who may have, for example, only brushed past each other in a shop.
Jeroen Weimar said authorities were now concerned about examples of transmission with very little contact between cases.
“It is entirely possible that we’ve seen this kind of fleeting contact in any of these locations, possibly others, so please use the exposure list as the guide,” he said.“We’re more used to transmission really occurring in the home, in the workplace, or whether as real people knowing each other already having old contacts, all those big social settings. These are quite different.”
Health Minister Martin Foley said the Arcare Maidstone Aged Care case had been linked to the South Australian case that leaked out of hotel quarantine and seeded“The genomic sequencing has confirmed that that case is directly linked to the South Australian hotel outbreak,” Mr Foley said.“That is at least confirming in our mind that this is over one related cluster, from the South Australian hotel.; two staff members, one resident and one son of a staff member.
The Health Department’s official tally of new cases for the past day is nine because it contains six cases that the government reported on Monday, as those results came back after midnight yesterday.There are now more than 320 exposure sites listed by health authorities and the additions are increasingly a list of places people are permitted to go during lockdown: supermarkets and grocery stores.
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