Victorian authorities investigate possible coronavirus cluster linked to Melbourne aged care home
Victorian health authorities are investigating a possible new cluster of coronavirus cases at a Melbourne aged care facility, the state's Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton said. Professor Sutton said authorities were investigating a number of cases linked to Hawthorn Grange residential aged care.
Speaking on ABC Radio Melbourne, Professor Sutton said there were three new positive cases at the home, including two residents and one staff member. He said stringent protection measures were being put in place because the "potential for spread is enormous". He said it was hard to know whether it was a visitor or staff member who had brought the illness into the facility."You don't always know the direction of travel when you test people, whether it's been introduced to a resident and then the resident to a staff member or the other way around," he said. "The measures are the same. We really need to make sure that everyone is tested, and that everyone who is positive is isolated and everyone else who is a contact is quarantined."People who had not spent longer than 15 minutes face-to-face or two hours in the same room with someone from the home would not need a test.Suspected cases of community transmission: 140
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