Minister Foley mentioned an additional case not in today’s numbers represented at the emergency department overnight.
We have had a case, as we all know, in the Royal Melbourne hospital. But the case was not there for Covid symptoms and was not showing Covid symptoms when they underwent surgery on 12 August. Symptoms commenced the next day.
In the cases announced today, there are three cases related to the Royal Melbourne hospital outbreak. There was a case yesterday, and we will be announcing a further three cases tomorrow related to Royal Melbourne. We expect that outbreak to grow, just as we expect to be Shepparton outbreak to grow.
There is a number of patients and staff, as well as a visitor to the hospital, and again, I thank the Royal Melbourne and all health services for continuing to drive that down, the contact tracing, and manage the staff situation. Our contact tracing teams are working extremely hard to manage the downstream transmission risk.
