15 July 2021 12:56pm
Melbourne will not be plunged into a fifth lockdown today, however restrictions have been tightened after the city recorded 11 new cases of COVID-19 on Thursday.
Among the infected people are three teachers at two separate schools, including one who caught the virus from an infected friend at an AFL game at the MCG on Saturday – one of the 31 new exposure sites. Another person caught the virus from the infected family of four who recently returned from Sydney.
Masks indoors have been compulsory from midnight Wednesday as officials try to stem two outbreaks of the Delta variant of the virus after two Sydney removalists passed through the state.