Chant: Health authorities are ‘mopping up a train of transmission’
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New South Wales Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant says authorities are “mopping up a train of transmission” but is increasingly concerned unknowingly infectious individuals are transmitting COVID-19 in the community. The state is bracing for further restriction with Premier Gladys Berejiklian to hold a crisis cabinet meeting after 29 new locally acquired cases were recorded in the past 24 hours. “Whilst we are linking the cases very quickly and establishing those lines of transmission, what we’re finding is that by the time we’ve got to some of those cases, they’ve already on-transmitted,” Dr Chant said. “In terms of the overall picture, what we are seeing is that we are mopping up a train of transmission that was not previously unrecognised.” “That means that there have been a number of people that have been infectious in the community unknowingly for a period of time and those individuals could have then already infected their families.”
New South Wales Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant says authorities are “mopping up a train of transmission” but is increasingly concerned unknowingly infectious individuals are transmitting COVID-19 in the community.
The state is bracing for further restriction with Premier Gladys Berejiklian to hold a crisis cabinet meeting after 29 new locally acquired cases were recorded in the past 24 hours.
“Whilst we are linking the cases very quickly and establishing those lines of transmission, what we’re finding is that by the time we’ve got to some of those cases, they’ve already on-transmitted,” Dr Chant said.
“In terms of the overall picture, what we are seeing is that we are mopping up a train of transmission that was not previously unrecognised.”
“That means that there have been a number of people that have been infectious in the community unknowingly for a period of time and those individuals could have then already infected their families.”
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