A school in Melbourne's north west has been closed for cleaning after a student tested positive for coronavirus.
The student at Keilor Downs College acquired the infection through a known source, Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton said.
On Tuesday, a teacher at the school was confirmed to have contracted the virus, but he had been working from home.
Professor Sutton said the student was infectious when he attended school on Tuesday May 26 — the day most students returned to face-to-face learning across the state.
Contact tracing is being conducted at the school and any close contacts of the student will be asked to self-isolate.
"It will probably apply to all of the classes that student was in," Professor Sutton said.
Students from Taylors Lakes and St Albans who attended a VET class with the Keilor Downs student on Tuesday have also been asked to self-isolate. Those schools have not closed.
Professor Sutton said the risk of transmission at schools remained low and Victoria had not seen any cases of teachers contracting the virus from students.
"If we've seen some cases [at schools] it's usually been introduced by adults … so the risk of transmission from a student to others is there but I wouldn't expect significant numbers. We certainly haven't seen that in the past," he said.
Victoria recorded seven new cases of COVID-19 since Thursday, bringing the state total to 1,634 after an earlier case was reclassified.
Three were detected through routine testing, two new infections were returned travellers in hotel quarantine and two were currently under investigation.
The high school student is associated with a previously reported family cluster linked to six infections.
Professor Sutton said how the student's family acquired the virus was under investigation.
More to come.
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