A mysterious outbreak of a new and infectious coronavirus strain in Melbourne could result in Victorian authorities extending stay-at-home orders.
Source:News Corp AustraliaThere are now three outbreaks with unknown sources in the state: the Whittlesea outbreak, which began with the Wollert man who left hotel quarantine in early May; the Arcare outbreak and the source of the Delta outbreak linked to West Melbourne.
“We always have a baseline level of concern where we don’t know where there is a case … but I think we are“For these cases that we can’t find who gave them the infection, particularly the family who returned from Jervis Bay, we are concerned about who was it that might have given them the infection and therefore could there be other infections related to that.”
For that reason he said would not push back if he was advised to extend the lockdown by health officials. “We do not have the luxury of picking and choosing the public health advice that we receive,” he said. “I hate going into lockdown, like every single Victorian I want to be out of lockdown as quickly as possible. The way to do that is for people to get tested, for peopletested positive to Covid-19 in Perth
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