Crowds at the MCG for the Boxing Day Test. - AAP
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Tens of thousands of cricket fans and Boxing Day shoppers are being asked to get tested and self-isolate, following Victoria s first mystery coronavirus case in more than two months.
Health authorities are scrambling to find the source, with a man in his 30s catching the virus after attending the sales at Chadstone Shopping Centre on December 26 and the Boxing Day Test at the MCG the following day.
Chadstone and the MCG, billed as the largest shopping centre and sports stadium in the country, have now been listed as possible transmission sites.
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Victoria is embarking on a needle in the haystack search for the source of the mystery coronavirus case who attended the Boxing Day sales and day two of the MCG Test.
The COVID-positive man in his 30s is understood not to have been infectious during his visits to the Chadstone Shopping Centre on 26 December and the MCG on 27 December for the Australia-India Boxing Day Test.
Health authorities instead believe he may have caught the virus while in attendance, with Chadstone and the MCG listed as potential acquisition sites.
It is Victoria s first mystery case since early November and is expected to put more strain on testing sites, with thousands of people being urged to submit samples.
Mr Barilaro said the upper part of the local government area would remain under stay home orders until Sunday as planned. I know you ve been doing it tough: you ve been locked down for a period of time, but that was off the back of a significant seeding event, and the transmission of COVID in that area, he said. We make these decisions to protect everyone, you, your family, the state and the nation.
Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant said all close contacts of the 18-year-old road-tripping through regional NSW had tested negative.
Shoppers wearing masks in Neutral Bay on Sydney s lower north shore.