The next two days will be “crucial” in Victoria’s fight against COVID-19 following the infection of a Noble Park man, 26, working as a resident support officer as part of the Australian Open quarantine program.

As a result, the ATP Cup Tournament for today has been cancelled, including the match where Greece’s Stefanos Tsitsipas was set to meet his long-time Spanish rival Rafael Nadal.

The Australian Open is scheduled to go ahead on Monday provided the situation is deemed to be under control.

The infected man had worked at the Grand Hyatt on 29 January, the same hotel where Greece’s tennis star Maria Sakkari was in harsh lockdown. The worker had taken a PCR nasal test at the end of is shift and returned a negative test result at the time, however he later developed symptoms and returned a positive result yesterday ending Melbourne’s long coronavirus-free streak of 28 days without community transmission.

The man, a Country Fire Authority volunteer, is feared to have a highly contagious UK strain of the virus.

Victoria Health has confirmed the infected man attended multiple venues from Friday, 29 January, through to Monday, 1 February while infectious.

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In a press conference held late on Wednesday night, Victoria’s Premier Daniel Andrews urged Melbourne residents to get coronavirus testing “first thing” this morning if they visited the following exposure sites.

Noble Park: Club Noble on Saturday 30 January, from 2.36pm to 3.30pm.

Keysborough: Aces Sporting Club (Driving Range) on 30 January, from 10pm to 11.15pm.

Brighton: Northpoint Café on 31 January, from 8.10am to 9.30am.

Keysborough: Parkmore Keysborough Shopping Centre, Kmart on 31 January, from 4pm to 5pm.

Brandon Park: Brandon Park Shopping Centre, Kmart on 31 January, from 4.35pm to 5.10pm.

Springvale: Coles Springvale on 31 January, from 5pm to 6pm.

Springvale: Bunnings Springvale on 1 February, from 11.28am to 12.15pm.

Heatherton: Melbourne Golf Academy on 1 February, from 5.19pm to 6.36pm.

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Investigation launched

An urgent investigation is also underway after two returned travellers who never met are feared to somehow have passed the UK COVID-19 strain between them at Park Royal Hotel in Melbourne in a potential transmission between 20 January and 28 January. The case involves a family of five and a woman, aged 60, on the same floor.

“The viral load of the room of the family of five was so high that just opening the door to pick up food saw the virus travel into the corridor,” Lisa Neville, head of COVID-19 Quarantine Victoria, said.

The family consisted of a couple, in their 40s,  who had travelled from Nigeria to Melbourne with their three children aged one, four and seven.

The woman who seemed to have contracted COVID from the family though their paths had not crossed, arrived in Melbourne from malaysia to Singapore on 11 January and had tested negative on her day three and 11 tests but returned a positive result to the UK variant on 28 January.