Victoria’s official tally of COVID-19 cases has risen to 15, after three more people were diagnosed with the virus, including two people who had recently travelled to the United States and one person who had returned from Iran.
Health Minister Jenny Mikakos said one of the latest cases was a man in his 50s, who was on the same flight from the US as Toorak GP Chris Higgins, who was diagnosed with the virus on Friday.
She said it was not clear whether the man had contracted the virus on the plane or afterwards.
He developed mild symptoms the day after the United Airlines flight UA 0060 landed in Melbourne on February 29 about 9:30am, and is recovering at home in self-isolation.
Before his diagnosis, the man visited Wine by Sam in Seymour on March 3, between 12:30pm and 3:30pm.
On March 5, he attended a private screening of The Amber Light, a film about Scottish whisky culture, at Cinema Nova in Carlton from 7:30pm to 10:30pm.
She defined close personal contact as at least 15 minutes of face-to-face time or more than two hours in the same room.
Woman in her 50s treated for pneumonia in hospital
The second patient from the US, a woman in her 20s, returned from Colorado on QF 94 from Los Angeles, arriving in Melbourne at 9:40am on March 6.
The third case, a woman in her 50s who returned from Tehran via Kuala Lumpur on MH 0149, arrived in Melbourne at 9:00am on March 6.
She had become unwell on February 18 while still in Tehran with a cough, fever and shortness of breath.
After she arrived in Melbourne, she was driven immediately to hospital by a relative and treated for pneumonia.abcnews