Factory worker for one of Australia’s biggest online retailer tests positive for coronavirus – the fourth person at Melbourne warehouse to be infected
- A worker at a Catch.com.au warehouse has tested positive for coronavirus
- The employee works at the retailer’s Truganina factory, in a Melbourne hostpot
- Contact tracing is underway to determine who the worker was in contact with
- A total of four employees at the warehouse have tested positive to COVID-19
A worker at a Catch.com.au warehouse has tested positive for coronavirus.
The employee at the budget online retailer’s Truganina factory, in one of Melbourne’s coronavirus hotspots, had returned a positive test.
Four employees at the warehouse have now tested positive to COVID-19.
Victoria Health confirmed on Thursday contact tracing is underway to determine how many had been in close contact with the employee.
The state recorded 165 new cases on Thursday as metropolitan Melbourne enters its first day of lockdown.
The factory employee at budget online retailer Catch.com.au’s Truganina factory (pictured), in one of Melbourne ‘s coronavirus hotspots, had returned a positive test
Just 30 of Victoria’s new cases are linked to known outbreaks, with 135 remaining under investigation. Pictured: Health workers outside Melbourne public housing tower
Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton confirmed just 30 of Victoria’s new cases are linked to known outbreaks, with 135 remaining under investigation.
Six of the new cases are linked to an outbreak at Al-Taqwa College in Truganina, which has become the state’s biggest cluster totalling 113 people.
The first case at the school was identified on June 27, with more than 2000 students and hundreds of staff sent into quarantine.
Eighteen cases are linked to the nine locked-down public housing towers in Flemington and North Melbourne, with the outbreak now totalling 111.
All 3,000 residents have now been tested, with more results expected later on Thursday.
Previously, an outbreak at the Cedar Meats abattoir had the notoriety of the state’s largest coronavirus outbreak, with 111 people infected.
Meanwhile, two healthcare workers at Sunshine Hospital and two at the Royal Melbourne Hospital have also tested positive, with contact tracing underway.
Another staff member at Northern Hospital in Epping has also contracted the virus, taking the total to 11.
Seven new cases are staff members at aged care facilities across Melbourne.
It’s the fourth day of new cases in the triple-digits, with the state’s overall total now 3098. More than 900 cases are active.