Victoria has closed its border to Greater Sydney as New South Wales records 11 more cases of COVID-19.
One new case has surfaced in Victoria linked to New South Wales.
“The interview with the public health team is underway, but here is what we have learned to date. He attended his daughter’s house in a green zone in Sydney at an event on Saturday night. He came back to Melbourne on Sunday evening on a flight,” Health Minister Martin Foley said.
“On Tuesday, at about 10pm, he began showing symptoms and was tested on Wednesday. The department was notified this morning of the positive result.
“He is currently feeling unwell and is being supported by the public health team. The public health team has acted quickly on finding out this information, we have already established his primary close contacts and they are all undergoing testing.
“We are gathering information and we are getting on top of this as quickly as we can and we will, of course, provide further updates as they come to hand.
“We will be receiving genomic testing, of course, but given the patterns of the Delta variant’s concern spreading around Sydney, we are taking the conservative approach and working on the basis that it is the Delta variant.”
