Australia's most populous state has reported its first locally acquired Covid-19 case in more than a month and health authorities are working to trace the source of the infection.
A man in his 50s with no known links to hotels used to quarantine people who have arrived from overseas tested positive for the coronavirus yesterday, the New South Wales (NSW) Ministry of Health said in a statement.
It is NSW's first local Covid-19 case since 31 March. The unnamed man visited several venues in the eastern suburbs of Sydney, the capital of NSW and Australia's biggest city, the ministry said.
Testing on the man showed his viral load was higher than typically seen in other infected people, potentially increasing the chance he has spread the disease,