Melbourne aged care resident and nurse test positive for Covid as Victoria’s records four new cases
Posted by CoV Report on June 5, 2021 11:38 pm
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Resident is fully vaccinated and asymptomatic and nurse last worked on Saturday as health authorities struggle to contain cluster of two variants
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Two further cases of local Covid transmission – a resident and a nurse at an aged care home – have been identified in Victoria in addition to the two infections officially recorded by the state on Sunday, as health officials continue to hunt for the source of a growing cluster of the highly infectious Delta variant.
The newly infected 79-year-old resident at the Arcare aged care home in Maidstone in Melbourne’s west lives in “close proximity” to the centre’s previous two cases.
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