Health
‘Disturbing news overnight’: Delta COVID-19 variant detected in Melbourne – WAtoday
Public health officials have identified a “very concerning” new COVID-19 variant in some cases that have been identified in Melbourne.
The cases that have the new variant are a family that returned from Jervis Bay in NSW but health authorities do not know where the variant was first picked up in Melbourne.
A Sydney man who sparked a recent scare in that city has had the Delta variant, according to Chief Medical Officer Professor Paul Kelly.
We know this family travelled to Jervis Bay, and we are examining who is the likely index case in this family, and therefore trying to trace back, where this variant has been picked up, Professor…
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