Coronavirus: Boy tests positive after attending MCG match

Two new cases in Melbourne have been connected to the Geelong vs Carlton match at the MCG last Saturday.

The Melbourne Cricket Ground has been listed as a COVID exposure site after last weekend's Geelong v Carlton game. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Andrew Henshaw

Victoria’s COVID-19 commander Jeroen Weimar says the state has detected two cases of COVID-19 in addition to the 10 recorded in the morning’s figures.

Mr Weimar said both cases are connected to the Geelong vs Carlton match at the MCG last Saturday and are a man in his 50s and a nine-year-old child.

The man is a friend of the man in his 60s who lives at the Ariele apartment complex in the west Melbourne suburb of Maribyrnong.

Together the two men took a train to the city and went to the popular Young and Jackson’s before attending Level Two of the MCC Members’ to watch Geelong v Carlton.

After the game, the man in his 50s went home to Barwon Heads where he lives with a nine-year-old child and a man in his 60s who have now tested positive.

“There’s two other positive cases now in his household, a 9-year-old child and another man in his 60s,” Mr Weimar said.

The Barwon Heads household is linked to Bacchus Marsh Grammar and Barwon Heads Primary School.

There are now 16 cases linked to three Sydney removalists and a family in Melbourne’s north.

The update with Mr Weimar may not be the last state government update for the day.

The Australian understands high level meetings are ongoing, with authorities growing increasingly concerned about transmission of the virus at the Geelong vs Carlton clash at the MCG on Saturday.

Discussions between health authorities and the Andrews government continue over the extent to which restrictions need to tighten.

Parents told to collect kids from Melbourne school

Earlier, parents from St Patricks Primary School in Murrumbeena, in Melbourne’s southeast, were told to collect their children from school after a Grade Four student tested positive for coronavirus.

The Australian understands the nine-year-old boy attended the Geelong vs Carlton match at the MCG last Saturday.

At least two other people who were seated in Level Two of the MCC Members’ stand at the match have so far tested positive.

The two include a man in his 60s who lives in the Ariele apartments in Maribyrnong, and a Bacchus Marsh Grammar teacher.

Other members of the child’s family have tested negative for the virus.

It is understood the child also attended football training at a local club in the southeastern suburbs, with associated exposure sites expected to be listed later on Thursday.

St Patrick’s parents were sent a text message on Thursday morning from the school.

“We have just been notified by the Department of Health that one of our students has tested positive to the Delta strain of Covid-19,” the message read.

“We have been instructed to close the school immediately.

“All Year Four students are to go directly to the drive through testing station at 133 Wellington Road, Clayton, before heading home and isolating until further notice. Other students are encouraged to be tested but it is not a requirement at this stage.

“We will keep you informed with time frames and any further information as it comes to hand. School will undergo a deep clean.

“All students are to be collected as soon as possible. We ask parents/carers to come to office to collect your children and we will call your children down.

“Could all parents please wear face masks and maintain social distancing. We understand this can be a stressful situation and we urge all parents to collect their children in an orderly and timely manner.”