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The Victorian man who tested positive after completing hotel quarantine in South Australia has returned another positive test, but his three household contacts have not.

He underwent the mandatory 14-day quarantine period in South Australia after returning to Australia and arrived back in Victoria on May 4. He began displaying COVID symptoms when he returned to his Wollert home on May 8 and got tested on May 10 before returning a positive result on Tuesday morning. Victoria Health Minister Martin Foley outlined the tier-one sites the infected man visited. People who visited these sites must get tested and isolate for 14 days.

“Firstly, the Melbourne CBD, the Curry Vault Indian restaurant and bar at 18 to 20 Bank Place between 6:30pm and 9:30pm on Friday, 7 May," Mr Foley said, “Secondly, in Epping, Indiagate Spices and Groceries at unit 14 C, 560 - 590 High St, Epping between 5pm and 6pm on Saturday eight May.” The tier-two sites listed require people to return a negative COVID-19 test result. “The first site is in Altona North.

 

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But isn't this virus super infectious? or so we keep being told, surely the people he lives with would catch it if that was the case. It's a crock of crap, outbreaks from HQ in Perth and QLD have shown how little this spreads.

It's all BS. We need to stop bleating on about cases - it's an irrelevant statistic

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