Volunteer who helped find missing toddler tests positive for COVID
One of the volunteers who helped in the dramatic search for 'miracle boy' AJ Elfalak yesterday has now tested positive to COVID and all the family and friends of the three-year-old are urged to get tested.
This also includes all the police and SES squads who were part of the search for the missing toddler. In fact, anybody who has been at the Yango Drive property in Putty, 150km northwest of Sydney, has been urged to get tested for the virus.
The volunteer is reportedly based at a Monastery a street away from the home and has helped family, friends and volunteers search for the toddler since Friday.
The owner of the nearby Grey Gums Cafe, Kim, has told the Daily Mail Australia she has since been told to get tested after serving members of the search party.
“We’ve all been up there,” she said. “It’s scary because we haven’t had COVID up here, not even in Singleton.”
Up to 400 volunteers, as well as media and relatives, have been at the home since Friday trying to help locate three-year-old AJ.
He was found on Monday less than 500 metres from the property, safe and well. He was taken immediately to Cessnock hospital for a full check up with his mother.
Image: Nine News