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Box Hill Hospital worker sparked northern suburbs outbreak – WAtoday
Nurse infected at Box Hill Hospital transmitted COVID-19 to members of her household in the Melbourne’s north, sparking cluster that stalled city’s reopening.
The state government has confirmed the nurse was patient zero for the northern suburbs cluster and released a map of the links between 11 affected households. Among the households there are 39 confirmed cases of coronavirus and 25 close contacts.
The outbreak has also been traced to infections at the Regis Macleod aged care facility in Melbourne’s north-east, with two employees there testing positive. Extensive testing at the aged care home in recent days has found no further infections.
The outbreak…
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