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Coronavirus-infected Sydney nurse linked to Avalon cluster not returning overseas travellers
Anglicare has confirmed one of its aged care residents has been identified as a close contact of a nurse who has tested positive for coronavirus.
Key points:
- A nurse transported a person with COVID–19 who had arrived from the US
- The nurse also transported an aged care resident
- The NSW Government says the people doing the two jobs are meant to be separate
The nurse is a patient transport worker for HealthShare and transported the aged care resident of Anglicare’s Brian King Gardens home at Castle Hill while they were potentially infectious.
NSW Health confirmed the nurse also transported a symptomatic family returning from the United States into hotel quarantine on December 14.
Genomic testing has shown the nurse, and a co-worker who also…
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