Victorian Family that Placed New South Wales on High Alert Has Different Coronavirus Strain

Victorian Family that Placed New South Wales on High Alert Has Different Coronavirus Strain
Victorian Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton at a daily press conference in Melbourne, Australia on Oct. 18, 2020. Darrian Traynor/Getty Images
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A COVID-positive Victorian family which travelled to parts of southern New South Wales (NSW) has a different coronavirus variant to other people associated with the current Greater Melbourne outbreak, Victorian authorities say.

NSW on Thursday extended by a week the stay-at-home order for people who have arrived from Victoria after the southern state lengthened its lockdown.

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