by Goya Dmytryshchak
Thirteen new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 were recorded today as Victoria’s lockdown was extended by seven days.
With the total number of active cases in Victoria at 85, the lockdown is set to end next Tuesday at 11.59pm.
Eighteen thousand primary close contacts of those cases had been identified, Victoria’s COVID commander Jeroen Weimar said.
Fourteen cases have been linked to the MCG, including nine who attended the Carlton-Geelong match on Saturday, July 10.
Residents of the Ariele Apartment complex in Maribyrnong tomorrow enter the second week of their 14-day quarantine after being exposed to COVID-positive removalists from Sydney.
Benjamin Millar and Goya Dmytryshchak
Thirteen new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 were recorded on Monday as Victoria’s lockdown was extended by seven days.
With the total number of active cases in Victoria at 85, the lockdown is set to end next Tuesday at 11.59pm.
Eighteen thousand primary close contacts of those cases had been identified, Victoria’s COVID commander Jeroen Weimar said.
Fourteen cases have been linked to the MCG, including nine who attended the Carlton-Geelong match on Saturday, July 10.
Residents of the Ariele Apartment complex in Maribyrnong today enter the second week of their 14-day quarantine after being exposed to COVID-positive removalists from Sydney.
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VICTORIA’S snap lockdown will not be lifted yet, after the state recorded its fifth day of cases in double digits, and the highly contagious Delta variant of COVID-19 spread further into regional Victoria.
While the lockdown was scheduled to end at 11.59pm on Tuesday night, any chance of an early reprieve for regional areas was dashed by a growing number of exposure sites at Phillip Island, Bacchus Marsh and now Mildura.
After 53,283 tests were processed in Victoria on Sunday, 13 locally acquired cases were announced on Monday morning, all linked to current outbreaks.
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Victoria’s lockdown will be extended past Wednesday as the state continues to try to get ahead of its COVID-19 outbreak.
As the state recorded 16 new local cases on Monday, Premier Daniel Andrews said a decision on the length of the lockdown would be announced on Tuesday. “I know this is not the news people want to hear,” he said.
“We will not be ready.”
During a COVID-19 update on Monday, Mr Andrews said the state had dodged “weeks and weeks” of lockdown by moving swiftly with restrictions, as Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton urged some patrons at the recent MCG Carlton versus Geelong match to get retested.