A year after the first case of COVID-19 was reported in Victoria, there are no new cases of locally or interstate acquired cases. There six cases that were acquired overseas are in hotel quarantine as of midnight 25 January. There are 31 active cases in the state and 11,806 test results were received over the same period.
The concern is that three of the overseas acquired cases reported were for the highly transmissible UK variant of the virus.
In NSW, in the 24 hours ending at 8pm on Sunday, 24 January, there were no new cases reported – making it the 7th day in row with on new locally acquired cases.
Three new cases relating to overseas travelers were reported. There are 78 COVID-10 cases being treated by NSW Health, none of whom are in intensive care. There were 11,344 tests carried out.
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NSW Health Sewage Surveillance Program has detected fragments of the COVID-19 virus in treatment plants at Warriewood, North Head and Liverpool.
An NSW Health official said the Warriewood plant catchment area takes in 70,000 people from Sydney’s Northern Beaches, while the North Head plant’s catchment area includes 1.3 million people north of the Paramatta River from Western Sydney to Manly.
The department has also found virus fragments at the Liverpool treatment plant with a catchment area of 180,000 people.
NSW Health said that while these fragments were likely to be from known cases that had been treated, it advised that people living in the catchment areas to monitor for symptom and to get test and isolate immediately.
In Queensland there were no new cases reported on Sunday and there were 15 active cases with 1,303 tests being conducted.
The Government of South Australia website reported no new cases in the state as of 3pm on Sunday.