Article 5K374 Victoria halts Pfizer vaccine bookings and locks down Melbourne unit block after two more Covid cases

Victoria halts Pfizer vaccine bookings and locks down Melbourne unit block after two more Covid cases

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Calla Wahlquist
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NSW authorities are investigating how a returned traveller in a Sydney quarantine hotel contracted Covid from a couple in an adjacent room

Victoria has halted new bookings for the Pfizer vaccine and locked down a large block of units in central Melbourne after two more people tested positive to Covid, while in Sydney authorities are investigating a possible spread of the virus in the quarantine system.

Anyone who had been at the Kings Park building on Melbourne's Southbank between 2-14 June was ordered on Tuesday to isolate for 14 days after contact tracers identified the virus had transmitted between some residents in a common area of the building.

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