Australia Covid live update: NSW records 18 new cases; Dan Andrews holds Vic press conference; Qld restrictions after two new cases

With regard to really three key lines of investigation at this point in time, the Sandringham workplace outbreak is proceeding well.

As I think I said yesterday, for the residents around the Oakleigh apartment building, all but one have confirmed negative test results. One individual we are still having discussions with, and we’re confident that they are not presenting a risk to the community.

We have 65 of 67 customers at the dry cleaner’s who have returned a negative test result; expecting a few more results over the next day or so. The people on the plane and associated with the journey, of 139, 85% have already returned a negative test result. This is proceeding exactly as we would expect…

In terms of the Virgin flight crew member who arrived in Melbourne late on Friday night and left again on Saturday morning, we now have 94 confirmed passengers on that plane. All of them have been contacted and we’re working through with them on their test results. Over a third of them are already returned back to interstate, so they’re no longer here in Victoria.

We’ll continue, of course, to support the remainder to complete their isolation and testing protocols. There’s a total of 152 Virgin staff who have been identified as primary close contacts – obviously, some on the plane, ground crew and other people in the Virgin crew bubbles.



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