Source: news.com.au
Health authorities are racing to trace the movements of a man who has tested positive to coronavirus in Victoria after finishing hotel quarantine interstate.
Urgent contact tracing is underway after a Victorian man tested positive to COVID-19 after finishing hotel quarantine interstate.
The health department said “full public health response” was underway after the man in his 30s recently returned to Australia from overseas and undertook hotel quarantine in South Australia.
He arrived in Victorian and returned to his home in Wollert on May 4, developing symptoms four days later.
He got tested on Monday and returned a positive result on Tuesday.
The health department says further tests have been arranged urgently to confirm the diagnosis.
“Until then, the department is treating this as a positive case and acting accordingly,” it said on Tuesday.
“The individual is being interviewed and exposure sites are being verified.”
The man is isolated at home along with his household primary close contacts, who are being interviewed and will be urgently tested.
The department said it’s working with interstate counterparts to determine the source of infection.
