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Victorian health authorities remain “alert but not alarmed” at the prospect of a new Covid-19 case after the discovery of viral fragments in wastewater sparked an order to more than 240 people to immediately retest. The urgent warning was followed by news that a seventh mass vaccination clinic will open in the Melbourne suburb of Cranbourne next week, the same day all Victorians over the age of 50 will be eligible for a Covid-19 jab. The 246 people from an extensive list of suburbs who were told to get retested on Thursday include recently returned interstate travellers from designated ...

Dr Dan Deere, a Melbourne University microbiologist in charge of Australia’s wastewater monitoring program, said there was a chance that the very strong fragments found in areas including Oak Park, Chirnside Park, Greensborough and Altona could indicate an active case. “Hopefully it’s quite a large number of people shedding low levels of virus, but the theoretical possibility [is] it’s a person early on in the stage of infection, returning them a higher level of virus, so that’s why the health department’s raised a heightened alert,” he told radio station 3A...

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