Coronavirus: Victorian aged care centres await virus results as contact tracing starts

Four aged-care facilities in Melbourne are awaiting the results of further coronavirus test results after they were forced into lockdown.

Residents and staff at three of the Melbourne aged care homes will be tested for the virus while contact tracing is under way.

Victoria's Deputy Chief Health Officer Annaliese van Diemen has confirmed three aged-care residents have tested positive.

While another facility is in lockdown as it awaits test results for two residents.

It comes as two healthcare workers at Kyabram District Health have tested positive to coronavirus.

A resident at Lynden Aged Care at Camberwell was diagnosed while being treated at a metropolitan hospital, prompting the facility to shut its doors to visitors on Tuesday.

Close contacts of the infected resident have been ordered to quarantine at home, the Department of Health confirmed

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HammondCare's Caulfield Village also went into lockdown after a resident in its dementia ward tested positive on Monday, before a second swab came back negative on Tuesday.

CEO Dr Stephen Judd said the woman, 84, had no fever and was in good health.

"She had a cough and that was the symptom that was seen on Sunday, and out of an abundance of caution, the GP prescribed the test," Mr Judd said.

"We've actually had more than 150 tests, both of residents and also of staff, all of those other tests have come back negative."

Results of the third test of the resident are expected to come back on Thursday.

It follows a similar situation at the Villa Maria Aged Care Home at Bundoora, where a resident who was taken to hospital at the weekend with a fever returned an inconclusive test result.

A subsequent test showed the resident did not have COVID-19.

The facility is in lockdown and the resident is isolating in their room as they await the result of two more tests.

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Meanwhile two residents at MiCare facilities Margriet Manor and Overbeek Lodge, both in Kilsyth, have been tested for coronavirus.

The residents had shown "flu-like symptoms", the facility's chief executive Petra Neeleman said in a statement.

Those facilities are in lockdown as MiCare awaits the results.

Seven people tested positive to coronavirus on Tuesday, with the state's total number of infections at 1573.

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 - Reported with AAP