Victoria has reported no new locally acquired COVID-19 cases after an infected man flew from Perth to Melbourne.
The Department of Health reported two new cases on Saturday, including that of a man who spent two weeks in hotel quarantine in Perth and returned negative test results when he was allowed to leave on April 17.
The other, from more than 13,000 tests in the past 24 hours, is an overseas acquired case in hotel quarantine.
Victorian authorities are counting the Perth case in its own tally because the man, who moved freely through the city for five days before flying out on April 21, tested positive in Melbourne.
But it has not designated the infection as "locally acquired", meaning the state's streak without any community transmission now stands at 57 days.
When the man arrived in Melbourne, Western Australian health authorities contacted him to say he was a primary close contact to infections detected at the hotel he had quarantined in.
He went home with his spouse, got tested and isolated immediately.
The man went into hotel quarantine in Melbourne on Thursday at his own request and received a positive test result on Friday morning.
"He did all of the right things, got his gear, went straight home, sat in the back seat, put his mask on all the way home and stayed separate from the rest of the members of his family," Health Minister Martin Foley said on Friday.
The man's spouse, his two children and one child's friend are isolating and at least two of them have received negative test results, testing chief Jeroen Weimar told ABC radio on Friday.
Travellers to Melbourne who were on the flight QF778 have to get tested and self-isolate for two weeks.
Anyone in Terminal 1 at Melbourne Airport between 6.30pm and 7.30pm on Wednesday has also been instructed to get tested and isolate until they get a negative result.
The man's infection has sent the Perth and Peel regions into a snap three-day lockdown.
A woman he stayed with during his five days outside hotel quarantine has tested positive to the virus and there are multiple exposure sites.
A total of three people have contracted the virus while staying at Perth's Mercure Hotel.
WA authorities confirmed through genomic testing that the virus spread in the corridor of the hotel from a couple who had returned from India.
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