Victoria Covid update: children’s cancer ward declared an exposure site as rapid antigen test trial announced
by Caitlin Cassidy from on (#5QD6F)
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Vulnerable children and their carers have been forced into isolation at the Royal Children's hospital in Melbourne after the cancer ward was declared a tier 1 Covid exposure site.
The hospital's chief executive, Bernadette McDonald, said no patients on the Kookaburra ward had tested positive for coronavirus yet. But a parent of a child being treated for cancer had tested positive after visiting the ward, she said.
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