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A Covid-positive West Melbourne family who travelled to parts of southern NSW were found to have a different variant to other people associated with the current Greater Melbourne outbreak
An expert says the new coronavirus outbreak discovered in Melbourne will dash hopes of an early end to the city’s lockdown after genomics testing found it was the more infectious Delta variant.
An uncle and his nephew, from the northern suburbs of Epping and Lalor, were tested together on Sunday: the uncle for his routine monthly test, the nephew because he had some symptoms, according to Health Department sources. Their results came back positive on Monday. By Tuesday several close contacts had tested positive, including “case 5”, the man contact tracers identified as the “index case” at the centre of the cluster, who moved through Melbourne for several days while infectious before getting tested. By Wednesday morning the cluster had grown to 15 and on Wednesday night, when...
Several epidemiologists have argued language being used by the Victorian government surrounding the infectiousness of the Kappa Indian variant of COVID-19 is inducing an unwarranted level of fear. Victoria Chief Health Officer Professor Brett Sutton has claimed the variant is more infectious and has been spreading quicker than variants the state has previously experienced. Professor Sutton said the current lockdown had been extended to contain the “more concerning, more contagious variant” but this claim has been disputed. Infectious diseases expert Professor Peter Collignon said, “th...
The Chief Health Officer says it is too early to outline specific benchmarks to ease restrictions, as the outbreak grew by six to 60 and the seven-day lockdown was extended,