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A Virgin Australia flight to South Australia is being treated as a coronavirus transmission site after a teenage passenger tested positive to COVID-19.

SA Health confirmed the new COVID-19 case and exposure site involving the domestic flight from Melbourne to Adelaide on October 4, in a media statement this afternoon.

"Today's case is a male in his teens who travelled on flight VA219 from Melbourne to Adelaide on 4 October. He has been in a medi-hotel since his arrival," the media statement said.

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"Flight VA 219 will now be treated as a transmission site and SA Health are ensuring that quarantine arrangements for all passengers reflect this higher level of concern."

Yesterday, it was revealed a Virgin Australia cabin crew member was infectious with coronavirus while working for three days last week, including the VA 219 flight.

The crew member was on flights from Melbourne to Adelaide, Sydney and Newcastle between October 4 and October 6, Victoria's Deputy Secretary of COVID-19 Response Kate Matson said.

"Fellow crew members on those flights have been deemed close contacts," Ms Matson said.

"Passengers on those flights are being contacted by the relevant jurisdictions and we have been in close contact with both NSW and South Australia and working closely with them to contact the relevant passengers."

The flights are VA 219 from Melbourne to Adelaide on October 4, and the returning VA 218 Adelaide to Melbourne the same day.

On October 5 the cabin crew member flew on VA 827 to Sydney, and on VA 808 back to Melbourne the same day.

On October 6 they flew on VA 1593 to Newcastle, and on VA 1594 back to Melbourne.

The case was detected by Virgin's surveillance testing.

South Australia has a total of 911 COVID-19 cases.

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