Brunswick Private Hospital shuts as patients, staff test COVID-19 positive – NEWS.com.au

A Melbourne hospital has shut as health authorities scramble to deal with a coronavirus outbreak at the private health facility. Four patients and a staff member tested positive for COVID-19 at the Moreland Rd site in Brunswick, the Department of Health confirmed.
Contact tracing is under way, while the hospital remains closed to new admissions.
Victoria recorded 134 new virus cases overnight, as total infections for the state rise to 2942.
A massive number of cases, 123, remain under investigation, while 11 were linked to contained outbreaks, Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews said this morning.
A total of 75 infections are related to the nine locked-down public housing towers.
TODAY’S CASES

• 7 new cases linked to the Al-Taqwa College outbreak, with the total now 102.
• 1 case linked to the Stamford Plaza outbreak, which now totals 43.
• 1 new case at the PM Fresh facility in Broadmeadows, taking the total at the site to 2.
• 3 additional cases linked to the Woolworths Customer Fulfilment Centre in Footscray, taking the total to 4.
• 5 positive cases have been linked to aged care services: a staff member who was infectious while at the Doutta Galla, Lynch’s Bridge site in Kensington on 2 and 3 July: A resident who tested positive at the Glendale Aged Care facility in Werribee: a staff member who worked at the Uniting AgeWell facility in Preston: a staff member at BaptCare Karana in Kew who tested positive but did not work while infectious: a positive case who provides aged care services to clients in their homes through Mercy Health.

NCA NewsWire yesterday revealed the Northern Hospital in Epping was temporarily diverting some ambulances to other hospitals as a coronavirus outbreak in the facility’s emergency department grew.
The cluster grew to nine yesterday after a household contact contracted COVID-19 from one of seven emergency department staff who tested positive to the deadly infection.
“Due to a number of staff cases of coronavirus and quarantined close contacts in the emergency department, the hospital is operating reduced services and some ambulances are temporarily being diverted to other hospitals,” a hospital spokesperson said.

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