A man has spoken out about testing positive to COVID-19 after attending a rugby match now believed to be a super-spreader event at Melbourne's AAMI Park.
Zac, 21, spoke exclusively to 9News as he fights coronavirus in hotel quarantine at the Holiday Inn after he tested positive despite two initial negative results.
The software engineer from Hawthorn attended the Wallabies vs France test match on July 13 with his godfather Pete, which later became a Tier One exposure site for certain areas.
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"The first one or two days of when I was symptomatic, I wasn't feeling too crash hot," Zac told 9News.
The pair have been forced into 14 days of quarantine after being exposed to the virus and believe they may have sat within two rows of the positive case at the stadium.
"We were pretty shocked to discover a few days later that we were in a Tier One exposure point and then immediately went into 14 days of kind of lockdown into our houses," Pete said.
While the pair sat together at the match, they arrived separately, lining up outside as busy crowds streamed inside.
Gate entry has previously been flagged by the state's chief health officer as a site of potential transmission in some cases.
"I actually recall going through the entry gate thinking this is pretty chockablock, you know," Zac said.
"Lot of shoulder-to-shoulder, very long queues.
"It struck me as just how potentially disastrous that queue could have been."
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There are now 10 cases linked to the AAMI Park cluster, including four new infections today, made up of one attendee in quarantine, one household contact in quarantine and two household members of the cases who visited Prahran market.
Pete - aged in his 40s and fully vaccinated with Pfizer - has so far tested negative.
"It's pretty incredible that Zac, who is obviously a lot younger and not eligible to have the vaccine, that we have come out with very different outcomes," Pete said.
There are thousands of close contacts from AAMI Park who will start their day 13 tests over the weekend.
Tests must come back negative for those people to be released from quarantine.
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