Four new COVID-19 cases have been uncovered among a family in Melbourne s north.
Health Minister Martin Foley confirmed two more people had returned positive coronavirus test results, adding to the two other cases revealed earlier on Monday.
Health authorities were alerted to the cluster after a Whittlesea man presented for testing on Sunday.
He and an asymptomatic male relative from a separate household both tested positive.
A woman and young child in the family of the Whittlesea man have also been confirmed as COVID positive.
Mr Foley said there was no indication the COVID-positive family members were linked to any exposure sites visited by a Victorian man who contracted coronavirus in hotel quarantine in South Australia.
People queue up for Covid-19 testing in Melbourne on May 12, 2021.
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Three of them are close family contacts of the initial case, whose source of infection remains unknown.
The first case was a man who showed symptoms of the coronavirus on 20 May. He got tested two days later on 23 May.
A male relative went with him when he got tested, and that person - who was not showing symptoms - had also tested positive, Foley said.
Both live in Whittlesea, in Melbourne s outer north.
Two other relatives, a woman and a preschool-aged child, were also tested and returned positive results.
Victorian health authorities have released a list of potential exposure sites after four people tested positive to coronavirus.
The four cases are from the same family across two different households in the Whittlesea area in the outer northern suburbs of Melbourne.
Jump Swim School, Bundoora: 8.55am-10am, May 21
Highpoint Shopping Centre: 5pm-8pm, May 20
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Highpoint Shopping Centre has been listed as a coronavirus exposure site.(Simon Schluter/The Age)
These venues are classed as Tier 1 and the current advice is to get tested immediately and quarantine for 14 days from exposure.
This afternoon Professor Brett Sutton said he believed the child who has tested positive was part of a swimming class at the Jump! Swimming School on May 21.
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Covid-19 testing takes place at a pop-up clinic in Melbourne, Australia as four new cases announced and there’s a hunt for a missing link.
The confirmation of four new Covid-19 cases in Melbourne has sent thousands of people in Australia into isolation for two weeks as authorities concede there may be a missing link between the new outbreak and a positive case in the city a fortnight ago. Highpoint Shopping Centre in Maribyrnong in Melbourne’s west and a swim school in the northern suburb of Bundoora have been added to the list of primary exposure sites after two men, a woman and a child from the Whittlesea area in the city’s outer north tested positive to coronavirus.