Health authorities say the young man worked as a traffic controller at the Moonee Valley Racecourse COVID-19 testing clinic for two days while potentially infectious.
Victorian health authorities are working to track the movements of a coronavirus testing site traffic controller who has tested positive to COVID-19.
A testing site at Mooney Valley Racecourse has been closed after a traffic controller tested positive.But the ninth case was revealed at a late-morning COVID-19 briefing. Victorian Health Minister Martin Foley said the young man was not a primary close contact of a known case. “[The new case is] not an existing primary close contact, and we do know that symptoms began on Monday evening with the person. They were tested Tuesday, and the positive result has come in this morning,” Mr Foley said.
“But if you’ve wound down your window to speak to a traffic controller at that site, that might put you at a slightly greater risk,” Mr Sutton said.
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