Australian politics live: Coalition talks up spending on infrastructure and women’s health on budget eve

There’s been a lot of work to identify how the transmission event occurred. Unfortunately we haven’t found that missing link. What is clear is this gentleman, because we have tested everyone in close proximity to this gentleman, the contact with the infectious person must have been very fleeting.

So, because of that, we’re still concerned that there may be chains of transmission in the community that are yet unrecognised.

What is pleasing is our sewage surveillance for Marrickville, which was positive earlier last week, a low positive, was negative over the weekend.

We’re recollecting those samples again today. But unfortunately for us, not unfortunately for nature, there was a lot of rain last week. And the rain actually impacts the reliability of the sewage because it dilutes the testing.

These are all the factors that we pull together to influence our decision making. We know that COVID can present as a very mild illness and it circulate unknowingly in the community. My plea to the community is to come forward and get tested.