Coronavirus: Lane Cove West Public student tests positive for COVID-19

The Sydney school has now been closed, with information yet to be released about how the child in year two managed to contract COVID-19.

A student at a school in Sydney‘s Lower North Shore has tested positive for coronavirus.

Lane Cove West Public School will be “non-operational” tomorrow with classes moved online while contact tracing takes place.

“The school will be cleaned tomorrow prior to school resuming,” NSW Health said in a statement.

“The school will continue to support students with learning materials provided by classroom teachers using SeeSaw and Zoom.”

No information has been released about how the child in year two managed to contract COVID-19.

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Lane Cove West Public School will be closed for cleaning and contact tracing.

It came as NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said the damage caused to Victorian border towns such as Albury-Wodonga would deter any attempt to restrict movement between the states.

“For a community like Albury-Wodonga, they don’t see themselves as two separate towns, they see themselves as one community,” Ms Berejiklian told ABC television on Wednesday night.

“A hard border closure would be detrimental to a part of the country that doesn’t have cases. We’re not in the business of having hard border closures.”

Victoria on Wednesday confirmed another 20 cases of COVID-19 amid an outbreak in outer-suburban Melbourne, taking to 213 the number of diagnoses over the past 10 days. NSW on Wednesday reported 10 new cases – all in hotel quarantine – from 13,278 tests.

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NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has urged people not to travel to Melbourne. Picture: AAP Image/Joel Carrett.

Ms Berejiklian has repeatedly criticised interstate travel restrictions and said she won’t agree to border closures with any of NSW’s neighbour states.

But she again urged against travel to Melbourne, particularly its six current COVID-19 hotspots: the local government areas of Hume, Casey, Brimbank, Moreland, Cardinia and Darebin.

Residents of those hotspots should not be moving around the community, the premier said, and NSW businesses should deny service to anyone from outer- suburban Melbourne.

She also implored NSW residents to avoid visiting Melbourne altogether. But Ms Berejiklian said she was confident her Victorian counterparts would get the outbreak under control before drastic measures were required.

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About 3159 COVID-19 cases have been reported in NSW to date, with none in intensive care.

Ms Berejiklian again encouraged NSW residents to seek testing if they felt unwell.

Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt this week said Australia’s international borders would remain closed for “a very significant” amount of time as global coronavirus infection rates accelerate, potentially until a vaccine is secured.

The number of coronavirus infections around the world has exceeded 9.3 million.