Victoria's concerning outbreak of the highly infectious Delta strain of Covid-19 has been linked to a returned traveller, though questions remain about how it leaked into the community. Victoria's Acting Premier James Merlino confirmed authorities have now found a genomic match between this cluster and a returned traveller who entered hotel quarantine on May 8 after arriving from Sri Lanka. There was also one case confirmed in an overseas traveller currently in hotel quarantine. "The second possibility is that the case transmitted after he left hotel quarantine. However, the one thing that could force authorities to keep lockdown restrictions in place would be a significant rise in mystery cases.

Source: New Zealand Herald June 08, 2021 02:09 UTC