Map shows movements of Melbourne family with Delta strain of Covid-19A map shows the journey taken by a family from Jervis Bay in NSW back to Melbourne before they tested positive for a strain of Covid-19 which has devastated India.
The Delta strain has so far been found in seven people from two families in Victoria, including three children.
Chief health officer Brett Sutton said on Friday the new variant was of “significant concern” and unrelated to the South Australian quarantine leak that prompted the state’s current lockdown.
The Victorian outbreak thus far had been a variant known as Kappa, which was also first found in India.
Two adults and two children from the family who travelled interstate make up four of the cases in the Delta strain cluster, while two adults and a child make up the other three.