Entire Melbourne apartment complex is in lockdown as Sydney's Covid outbreak jumps the border after infected removalists travelled interstate
An entire apartment complex in Melbourne is now in lockdown after being visited by Covid-infected removalists who travelled from Sydney.
Residents of the Ariele Apartments in Maribyrnong, 8km north-west of the Victorian state capital, have been ordered not to leave the building after the infected group visited on July 8.
The complex has since been listed as a Tier 1 exposure site, which means anyone at the apartments from 1pm to 11.59pm on that day must get tested and isolate for 14 days, regardless of the results.
Anyone who's even been to the block at any time between July 9 and 12 must also get tested and isolate until they test negative.
The infected cases have also put a Mobil service station, a McDonald's, a shopping centre, a Metro petrol station and a Coles on alert.
Residents of the Ariele Apartments in Maribyrnong , 8km north-west of the Victorian state capital, have been ordered not to leave the building after the infected group visited on July 8
It comes after Victoria recorded its 12th day of no locally acquired cases and the state effectively shut the border to NSW and the ACT overnight (pictured, a Melbourne testing centre)
It comes after two members of a Melbourne family tested positive after returning from NSW on red zone permits.
The state's Covid Commander Jeroen Weimar said three of the family of four from the City of Hume arrived on July 4 by air and the other returned by car on July 8.
They all initially tested negative but two became symptomatic and were tested on Sunday, with the results coming back positive on Monday.
Contact tracers are also on high alert after at least one member of a three-man removalist crew who travelled through Victoria and SA from NSW tested positive to the virus.
The infected cases have also put a Mobil service station, a McDonald's, a Metro petrol station and a Coles at Craigieburn Central Shopping Centre
An infected case visited Ballan McDonald's on July 8 between 5pm and 7pm
MELBOURNE'S NEW COVID EXPOSURE SITES
Tier 1: Get tested immediately and quarantine for 14 days from exposure
Ballan: Mobil Ballan - 08/07/21, 5pm - 7pm
Ballan: McDonald's Ballan - 08/07/21, 5pm - 7pm
Craigieburn: Coles in Craigieburn Central Shopping Centre - 10/07/21, 5.28pm - 6.38pm
Maribyrnong: Ariele Apartments (anyone present) - 08/07/21, 1pm - 11.59pm
Tier 2: Get tested urgently and isolate until you have a negative result
Maribyrnong: Ariele Apartments - July 9, 10, 11 and 12, 12am - 11.59pm
Broadmeadows: Metro Petroleum - 11/07/21, 1.19pm - 2.04pm
Qantas flight QF1542: Launceston to Melbourne - 02/07/21, 10.15am - 11.20am
Tier 3: Monitor for symptoms
Craigieburn: Craigieburn Central Shopping Centre - 10/07/21, 5.28pm - 6.38pm
Another family from Whittlesea in Melbourne's north who had contact with the Covid-infected removalist has so far tested negative.
They relocated to Victoria from interstate and tested negative on July 9.
Contact tracers are working to establish the removalist's movements, though it is believed he travelled from Sydney to Melbourne via the Hume Highway and worked at several homes in the city before travelling to SA.
NSW Health alerted Victoria's authorities late on Sunday night.
Policemen at a checkpoint at the New South Wales-Victoria border. The new infected cases entered Victoria before the border was closed at midnight on Sunday
Mr Weimar said another of the three removalist crew members may have also turned positive.
Removalists are permitted workers under the state's border permit system.
It comes after Victoria recorded its 12th day of no locally acquired cases and the state effectively shut the border to NSW and the ACT overnight, declaring them red zones under the travel permit system from 11.59pm on Sunday.
NSW reported 112 new local cases on Monday, its highest daily total since the Bondi cluster emerged on June 16.