A growing coronavirus outbreak has sparked fears Melbourne could be plunged into another snap lockdown in a desperate battle to stop the cluster from spreading.
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A close contact of one of those cases also returned a positive result on Tuesday morning, before four members of his family tested positive on Tuesday afternoon.
The first five cases have been linked through genomic testing to a Melbourne man who tested positive more than two weeks ago and who is suspected of becoming infected while in hotel quarantine in South Australia.
Cases 10 to 15 include workplace contacts of case nine.
The Curry Vault restaurant in Bank Place, in the CBD, was named an exposure site after a Wollert man who contracted coronavirus dined there earlier this month.
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Victorian health officials have confirmed four new cases of COVID-19 have been recorded in Melbourne’s northern suburbs, and have placed a major shopping centre on the list of exposure sites as a result.
The new cases are all known to each other, and are close family members spread across two households. It is unclear at this stage where the four cases originated from, however Victorian health minister
Martin Foley stated there is the possibility that they are related to the recent positive case in Wollert, involving a man who tested positive for coronavirus after leaving hotel quarantine in Adelaide.