What's That Rash?

When NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian started her press conference yesterday, she got straight to the point: NSW had detected a case of COVID in the community.

And as yet, there’s no known source. The patient has not been overseas or interstate and has no known links to hotel quarantine.

He's also been infectious in the community for the last several days.

So as NSW Health tries to pin down where he might have got it, Coronacast asks how this mysterious case compares to other recent outbreaks.

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Just when you think it's getting boring in coronavirus land, you're hit with an avalanche of news.

Sydney is continuing to battle an outbreak of COVID-19, as health detectives narrow in on where it might have come from.

And Australia's medicines regulator has revealed five more people have developed blood clots after receiving the AstraZeneca vaccine, bringing the total to 11 from around 1.4 million doses since the rollout began.

So what have we learned about the variant circulating in Sydney? And what's the current likelihood of developing a clot?

It seems that COVID cases in the latest wave have indeed peaked, and all things across the usual pandemic metrics are improving.

It's the best COVID caseload we've had since Omicron came into our lives late last year.

So has BA5 burnt itself out or is this just a small respite? And are we due for another variant?

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What started with just four coronavirus cases in Melbourne a few days ago has now more than doubled, as close contacts are tracked down, isolated and tested.

While cases are being linked to each other, how they relate back to a hotel quarantine breach in South Australia is still unclear.

The other big challenge facing health authorities will be making sure every case is tracked down, but that's a job that gets harder with every new positive case.

So on today's Coronacast, what are we hoping for in the days ahead?

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A string of community transmission donut days in NSW has been a nice to see since a mystery COVID-19 case popped up in Sydney late last week.

However, despite its best efforts, NSW Health has not been able to find out how the case jumped from hotel quarantine into the community.

The man has clearly picked up the virus from a mystery person in the community, who could well have spread it to others.

So on today's Coronacast, how worrying it is that the link hasn't been found?

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And don't forget to check out the new season of Patient Zero!

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