The Australian state of Victoria has seen its biggest jump in new cases in several weeks while the country’s most populous state, New South Wales, is dealing with a cluster of infections at an old people’s care facility.
Thirteen new cases have been registered in Victoria, health officials said, with six of the infections related to a meat processing facility in the state’s capital, Melbourne.
“What I’m worried about is the unknown unknowns,” Victoria’s Health Minister Jenny Mikakos said, pleading for more people to get tested. She added: “We want to make sure that if we have cases that are positive in the community we can identify those individuals… this is how we are going to defeat the virus.”
In New South Wales there were four new infections, two of which were reported at the Newmarch aged care facility in Sydney, where more than 60 people have contracted the novel virus, resulting in 14 deaths.
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