Victoria has reported no new locally acquired COVID-19 cases after an infected man flew from Perth to Melbourne.
When the man arrived in Melbourne, Western Australian health authorities contacted him to say he was a primary close contact to infections detected at the hotel he had quarantined in.The man went into hotel quarantine in Melbourne on Thursday at his own request and received a positive test result on Friday morning.
"He did all of the right things, got his gear, went straight home, sat in the back seat, put his mask on all the way home and stayed separate from the rest of the members of his family," Health Minister Martin Foley said on Friday.The man's spouse, his two children and one child's friend are isolating and at least two of them have received negative test results, testing chief Jeroen Weimar told ABC radio on Friday.
Travellers to Melbourne who were on the flight QF778 have to get tested and self-isolate for two weeks. Anyone in Terminal 1 at Melbourne Airport between 6.30pm and 7.30pm on Wednesday has also been instructed to get tested and isolate until they get a negative result.A woman he stayed with during his five days outside hotel quarantine has tested positive to the virus and there are multiple exposure sites.WA authorities confirmed through genomic testing that the virus spread in the corridor of the hotel from a couple who had returned from India.
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