Covid cases have suddenly risen in the ACT after a raging Halloween party for school kids turned into a ‘super-spreader event’. Nine new locally acquired cases were recorded on Wednesday as ACT Health noted that at least 33 cases have been connected to an illegal house party on October 30 at a home in Wanniassa. ACT Health Minister Rachel Stephen-Smith said that health authorities confirmed the cases linked to the event on Tuesday and ACT Policing is now investigating it. ‘Anecdotal reports [are] of a very large house party that clearly would have been in breach of Covid-19 rules,’ Ms Stephen-Smith told ABC Radio Canberra. 16 schools in the ACT have now been listed as Covid exposure sites after Mawson Primary School and Alfred Deakin High School were recorded as sites on Tuesday.

Source: Daily Mail November 11, 2021 11:23 UTC