Victoria recorded no new native instances of COVID-19 and no deaths from the virus on Sunday morning, however one further case was present in a world traveller inside resort quarantine.
There have been 5854 take a look at outcomes acquired throughout Saturday. Ten instances stay lively in Victoria: 9 travellers who had been contaminated with the virus abroad and stay in resort quarantine, and one 15-year-old woman who travelled from NSW and stays in dwelling isolation.
The 58th day of no native Victorian instances comes after 30 employees on the Royal Melbourne Hospital had been compelled to isolate on Saturday after a affected person returned an preliminary optimistic take a look at to COVID-19.
The Division of Well being and Human Providers mentioned an skilled evaluation panel was referred to as in to evaluation one case the place a low optimistic outcome was returned from a coronavirus take a look at.
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A spokeswoman mentioned the second take a look at returned a damaging studying.
The Victorian president of the Australian Medical Affiliation praised the hospital’s resolution to rapidly ship employees into isolation after the preliminary optimistic take a look at.
“False positives happen,” AMA president Julian Rait mentioned.
“It sounds as if all acceptable an infection prevention protocols had been adopted on this event.”
NSW recorded 9 new domestically acquired instances on Saturday, together with six individuals in a single family. Virtually 40,000 individuals had been examined.
From midnight on Boxing Day till 11.59pm on December 30, residents of the northern a part of Sydney’s northern seashores are restricted to out of doors gatherings of as much as 5 individuals for train and recreation.
Residents of the southern a part of the northern seashores can have out of doors gatherings of as much as 10 individuals for train and recreation.
“Our technique is to nip this within the bud as quickly as we are able to, to verify we do the onerous yards now so we are able to have normality as quickly as we are able to,” NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian mentioned.
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