NSW Customer Services Minister Victor Dominello has gone back into isolation as a close contact of a COVID-19 case after being wrongly advised he was a casual contact and could leave self-quarantine.
NSW Health in a statement on Wednesday night said it had apologised to Dominello for providing “incorrect advice” to him.
The statement came just hours after Dominello stood directly behind NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant at Wednesday’s COVID-19 press conference.
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The advice related to his exposure in NSW Parliament to a COVID-19 case diagnosed on Thursday, June 24.
Dominello left isolation on Saturday after receiving a negative test result and advice from NSW Health he had been classified as a casual contact.
He immediately re-entered isolation when contacted by NSW Health on Wednesday afternoon to advise he remained a close contact.
“An urgent COVID-19 test was performed and this test returned a negative result,” NSW Health said.
The minister is to remain in isolation until July 6.
“His two negative test results mean he has not posed a risk while in the community or to those he has interacted with in recent days,” the department said.
It said a risk assessment determined his proximity in the chamber during Question Time on Tuesday, June 22, for an extended period of time made him a close contact.
The risk assessment of a further exposure event in his office that day determined he was a casual contact and on Saturday he was informed he could leave isolation after receiving a negative test result.
“NSW Health apologises for this error.”