Six health care workers have now been linked to the latest outbreak in Western Sydney as New South Wales health authorities work to uncover the source of infection.
The infected workers included one in the Concord Hospital Emergency Department and two others who worked in the Liverpool Hospital Emergency Department, prompting 100 health care workers to enter isolation while awaiting test results. A person who visited a patient at the Concord ED also returned a positive test.
NSW health authorities investigated fomite transmission as one possible theory for the spread, which was where the virus spread through contaminated surfaces. All non-urgent surgeries were suspended until Friday, while doctors and nurses from other hospitals faced being re-deployed to cover the shortfall. NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard said it was not unexpected a small number of health workers became infected in the fight against the virus.
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