NSW Health has confirmed a child too young to be vaccinated is the latest confirmed case of Omicron in the state. The parents have also tested positive to COVID-19 as NSW Health undertakes genomic testing to ascertain if they, too, are positive to Omicron. What’s puzzling NSW Health is that the family, who were staying in the Mantra Serviced Apartments at Chatswood and visited several venues in Chatswood, had not spent any time in southern Africa.
The new infection was identified on Thursday 2 December, and authorities are now investigating whether the family may have become infected aboard Qatar Airways flight QR908 from Doha to Sydney on Thursday, 23 November 2021.
Positive Omicron cases have also been confirmed in passengers on two other Qatar Airways flights from Doha, which landed on November 25 and 27 respectively, along with two confirmed cases who arrived in Sydney on Singapore Airlines flight SQ211 on Sunday 28 November 2021.
Passengers and crew who flew into Sydney on any of these flights are being advised to monitor for symptoms, get tested and isolate until they receive a negative result.
