Health authorities are investigating how a COVID-19 outbreak developed in a cancer ward at Canberra Hospital but are confident it will be fully suppressed by the end of the week.
The virus was first detected in a patient in the ward who was found to be positive during routine testing. It is not yet known how that patient contracted COVID-19.
Canberra Hospital Cancer Centre clinical director Paul Craft said authorities were still investigating how COVID-19 had spread throughout the ward. He said this could take some time.
