The premier: “New outbreak born from the exchange of a lighter”

One of the new coronavirus outbreaks in Melbourne may have been caused by the exchange of a lighter among hotel employees.

The Prime Minister of Victoria, Daniel Andrews said: “They kept their distance but they passed the lighter,” he said according to what reported by the BBC adding that always the same employees went by car together “being so much closer between them than is desirable. ”

Meanwhile, the city is seeing an increase in cases of contagion and the authorities are considering new lockdown measures.

In the last 24 hours, 49 positives have been recorded at Covid-19, the highest number since last April. This is not a “second wave”, reassure the authorities, but Premier Andrews has announced that he is considering whether to ask citizens to stay home in the next few days. To prevent the spread of the infections, the state has started carrying out carpet tests, and from Friday 40 thousand people have already been subjected to the control.

In the rest of Australia, however, the virus has almost completely disappeared. In the west of the country there was only one new case, in New South Wales three and they were all people who had returned from abroad. Zero infections in Queensland and the south.

(Unioneonline / D)

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