The Victorian teacher who tested positive to coronavirus is a woman in her 20s who lives in Hobsons Bay in Melbourne’s south-west, according to the state’s COVID-19 response commander Jeroen Weimar.
Victorian health authorities believe the woman, who teaches at Al-Taqwa College in Truganina, may have been infectious last Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
She visited Coles in Yarraville last Thursday and the supermarket has been declared a “tier-2†exposure site.
Speaking on ABC radio on Wednesday evening, Mr Weimar said health authorities had asked all 2100 students and 300 teachers at the Al-Taqwa school to get tested and isolate for 14 days.
“We’re working on the basis of Wednesday, Thursday and Friday last week … we’re assuming at this point of time that she may have been infectious [then],†Mr Weimar said.
“There may be other exposures that emerge over the course of the evening.â€
Mr Weimar said the woman lives with her husband, who was being tested “as we speakâ€.
Al-Taqwa College was at the centre of a large COVID outbreak in Victoria last year.
Mr Weimar said he was confident health authorities would work well with Al-Taqwa to get on top of the new case.
“The leadership we’ve seen from Al-Taqwa tonight and over recent months has been outstanding, so I’m confident we’ll work well with them to get on top of this outbreak,†he said.
