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WATCH LIVE: Victoria’s COVID-19 update press conference today after ‘false positives’ recorded – 7NEWS.com.au
Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton said there are reports the variant causes ‘greater illness’ in children.
A new COVID-19 variant has been detected in Victoria that is of significant concern as it is not linked to any other outbreaks across the country.
On Friday morning, Victorias Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton said the health team received sequencing overnight that found the new variant, which is unrelated to all of the other cases in the Melbourne cluster.
It came from one of the original cases in West Melbourne that travelled to Jervis Bay in NSW and is believed to have been transmitted between…
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