SYDNEY — Australia’s most populous state reported no new locally acquired COVID-19 cases for a fifth straight day on Tuesday as authorities hunt for a missing link in a new infection chain reported last week.
New South Wales state last Wednesday reported its first local case in more than a month after a man in his 50s tested positive, tracing the infection back to a returned traveller from overseas.
But officials have not yet located the transmission path between them, raising concerns that the virus could be spreading in the community through undiscovered cases.
The case of the unidentified Sydney man, who later passed the virus on to his wife, prompted authorities to…
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