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Victoria records one new COVID-19 case in hotel quarantine, no locally acquired infections
A child in Victorian hotel quarantine has been diagnosed with COVID-19, as the state recorded its 44th day in a row without community transmission of the virus.
Key points:
- It is the sixth case confirmed in hotel quarantine this weekend
- Authorities expect about one in every 100 returned travellers to be diagnosed with the virus
- The cases in hotel quarantine are the only confirmed active infections in Victoria
Authorities said a boy under the age of five, the child of two returned travellers who had already been diagnosed with coronavirus, acquired the infection overseas.
The case brings the total number of confirmed infections in the state’s quarantine system to six.
On Saturday, health authorities confirmed five returned travellers had been…
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