A Melbourne hospital is closed for new admissions and contact tracing is underway at multiple Victorian aged care facilities as the number of new coronavirus cases in the state continues to climb.

A Melbourne hospital has been closed for new admissions and contact tracing is underway at multiple Victorian aged care facilities as the number of new coronavirus cases in the state continues to climb.
Key points:

• The health department says the outbreak squad will visit the hospital
• Staff and residents have tested positive to COVID-19 at separate aged care facilities
• The number of coronavirus infections linked to the locked-down public housing towers has risen to 75

Victoria recorded 134 new coronavirus cases overnight, the third day in a row of increases over 100.
Only 11 of the new infections are linked to known outbreaks, while the rest are still under investigation by health officials.
The new infections include four patients and one staff member at the Brunswick Private Hospital in Melbourne’s inner north.
The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) said contact tracing was underway at the hospital.
“The outbreak squad will visit today and the hospital is closed to new admissions,” DHHS said.
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It follows the ABC being told only ambulances with code-one emergencies were being taken to the Northern Hospital’s emergency room, after eight staff and one of their household contacts tested positive to COVID-19 earlier this week.
All staff were being tested and contact tracing was underway at what was usually Victoria’s busiest emergency department, a spokesperson said on Monday night.
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The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) said the infections were:

• A staff member who was infectious while at the Doutta Galla, Lynch’s Bridge site in Kensington, on July 2 and 3
• A resident who tested positive at the Glendale Aged Care facility in Werribee
• A staff member who worked at the Uniting AgeWell facility in Preston
• A staff member at BaptCare Karana in Kew who tested positive but did not work while infectious

The department said another person who tested positive to coronavirus provided aged care services to clients in their homes through Mercy Health.
“Cleaning, contact tracing and appropriate testing is underway” at the facilities, the department said.
The ABC has confirmed another infection in a staff member who worked at the Aurrum aged care facility in Healesville, north-east of Melbourne.
Victoria COVID-19 snapshot

• Confirmed cases so far: 2,942
• Recovered patients: 2,058
• Deaths: 22
• Suspected cases of community transmission: 456
• Cases in hospital: 41
• Intensive care patients: 7
• Tests since pandemic began: More than 1,008,000

Updated Wednesday, July 8
Latest information from the Victorian Government
An email from the facility said the staff member was not believed to have been showing symptoms when they were last in contact with any other team members or residents.
“As a precaution, we are today undertaking a routine baseline set of observations for all residents, which includes blood pressure, temperature, and pulse,” chief executive Craig Rutherford said.
“We ask that everyone continue to follow the COVID-safe infection control practices, including social distancing, visiting only in designated outdoor areas or residents’ rooms, hand washing and the use of hand gel sanitiser.”
The outbreaks at nine public housing towers in Flemington and North Melbourne are now linked to 75 infections.
The towers have been under a “hard lockdown” since Saturday afternoon, with some 3,000 residents forbidden from going in and out of the buildings.
There are more than 1,000 units in the nine public housing towers.(ABC News: James Hancock)
There have also been seven new cases linked to an outbreak at the Al-Taqwa College in Truganina, taking the total to 102, and one new infection linked to the Stamford Plaza outbreak, taking the total to 43.
There is a second case linked to the PM Fresh food processing facility in Broadmeadows.
Three new cases have been linked to a Woolworths facility in Footscray, taking the total there to four.
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