Health authorities in the Australian state of Victoria engaged in a search for communications and prepared for further major testing of Melbourne residents after a new COVID-19 group linked to a quarantine hotel grew to eight cases on Thursday .
More than 22,500 test results have been tested in the last 24 hours in Australia’s second most populous city Melbourne and authorities have urged residents to be tested amid fears of a community outcry from a Holiday worker Inn in town.
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The new revolution in Melbourne, where the Australian Open tennis tournament is taking place, has frightened a new wave of diseases in the hardest hit state of COVID-19.
Victoria had more than 20,000 cases last year and more than 800 deaths, forcing authorities to impose a tight lock that lasted more than 100 days, the hardest act of any Australian state.
The latest behavior, which was likely to be triggered by a medical device called a nebuliser used by a COVID-positive guest in the hotel, is made up of three hotel staff and two passengers who returned in quarantine.
The remaining guests were transferred to another hotel to attend their quarantine and more than 100 hotel staff were deployed.
Australia has been among the most successful countries in the world in handling the novel coronavirus, largely due to secure handcuffs and sealed borders for all but travelers, with around on 22,000 cases and 909 deaths.
But his quarantine hotels, where international entrants spend two weeks, have been a weak link in defense with the latest Melbourne-based group that came out of one.
The most populous state in New South Wales on Thursday reported zero issues. Other major states – Queensland and Western Australia – have yet to report their numbers.
Australia was one of the first countries to request a study for the origins of COVID-19, first reported in the Chinese city of Wuhan, an action prompted by Beijing-backed diplomatic backers who have major responsibilities reduced or banned several Australians from offshore goods.
The Sydney Morning Herald reported on Thursday that an Australian scientist, part of a World Health Organization (WHO) team investigating the origins of COVID-19, told the paper that he believed the virus in China, despite official WHO results still being uncertain.
“I think the evidence for it starting in other parts of the world is very limited. There is some evidence but it’s not terribly good,” said Professor Dominic Dwyer, microbiologist and infectious diseases specialist with NSW Health.