“While thousands of employees stood down. “Another “Faulty Towers” example of failure,” he said. Picture: Getty Imagesįormer Premier Jeff Kennett said the false positives had needlessly alarmed communities. Health officials warned the infections showed the danger posed by the Indian super-strain circulating across Melbourne. “Following analysis by an expert review panel, and retesting through the Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, two cases linked to this outbreak have been declared false positives,” a Department statement said.īoth the display home and Brighton Beach Hotel will remain exposure sites because they are linked to other cases, but any exposure sites linked to the two false cases, including all listed in Anglesea, will be “stood down”.
“What we are seeing now clearly is people who are brushing past each other in a small shop, they are going to a display home, they are looking at phones in a Telstra shop – they don’t know each other’s names and that is very different from where we have been,” said Covid-19 response commander Jeroen Weimar on Tuesday.īut the Department of Health said on Thursday that those two instances were “no longer considered confirmed cases”. It came just days after health officials warned that the infections showed the danger posed by the Indian super-strain circulating across Melbourne.
Two “fleeting” transmission cases partially used to justify Victoria’s extended lockdown were false positives with the state government now under increasing pressure to publicly release its health advice.Īn expert panel on Thursday ruled that the cases - a woman who was said to have caught the virus at a display home, and a man allegedly infected while dining outdoors at the Brighton Beach Hotel - were “false positives”. For the latest news on Melbourne’s lockdown and Covid cases in Victoria, click here for Friday’s rolling coverage. This article was published on Thursday, June 3. Click here for full digital access to trusted news from the Herald Sun and Leader for just $1 a week for the first 12 week.
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