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Coronavirus Australia live updates: Two pubs in SA locked down amid virus fears

Coronavirus Australia live updates: Two pubs in SA locked down amid virus fears

Coronavirus Australia live updates: Two pubs in SA locked down amid virus fears
Jul 12, 2020 1 min, 55 secs

A Melbourne hospital has detected a cluster of coronavirus cases among its staff for the second time during the pandemic.

Eight staff members from The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne have tested positive for coronavirus.

A cluster of eight coronavirus cases has been recorded among staff at The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne.

The hospital says the cluster includes five cases acquired through community transmission and three cases detected through contact tracing.

It’s the second time the hospital had reported a cluster of cases during the pandemic — the first time was at the beginning when a cluster was detected in March.

It comes as dozens of patrons and staff were placed into lockdown after two pubs in Bordertown, South Australia, were exposed to a potential coronavirus case on Friday night and Defence Force personnel arrived at the Victoria-South Australia border to assist police at checkpoints. .

A cluster of eight coronavirus cases has been recorded among staff at The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne.

The hospital says the cluster includes five cases acquired through community transmission and three cases detected through contact tracing.

It’s the second time the hospital had reported a cluster of cases during the pandemic — the first time was at the beginning when a cluster was detected in March, according to the ABC.

The US President Donald Trump visited a medical centre for wounded soldiers on Saturday wearing a face mask.

The President has faced increasing public pressure to wear a face covering in public, in line with guidance from the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to wear a mask to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

READ MORE: Coronavirus: Donald Trump wears face mask after months of resisting pressure.

The director-general of the World Health Organisation, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has made an emotional plea for global unity in the battle against coronavirus.

His comments will likely be seen as a thinly-veiled swipe at US President Donald Trump, who has condemned the WHO during the global pandemic, and come days after the Trump administration told the United Nations the US would be formally withdrawing from the WHO.

Dozens of patrons and staff were locked down across two pubs in Bordertown, South Australia, on Friday night after a potential coronavirus case passed through the town, possibly putting them at risk.

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