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Victoria still needs to step carefully through the processes to stay safe09/06/2021|7min
Victorian Health Minister Martin Foley says there are now fewer than 200 exposure sites for COVID-19 in Melbourne and the close contacts linked to the beginning of the outbreak are soon ending their self-isolation period.
“We are continuing to work through the clearances of the primary close contacts throughout this outbreak, in the many, many thousands, and those people are increasingly getting to the end of their quarantine period,” he said.
Mr Foley said Victorians were still getting tested at “unprecedented levels” and should continue to do so for the winter months until vaccination rates are higher.
Victorian Health Minister Martin Foley announced five new local cases of COVID-19 were recorded in the state overnight.
“There are currently five new locally acquired cases of coronavirus overnight since our last report bringing the total number of individual cases from the start of this outbreak to 70 and that includes one recovered case,” he said.
“Three of these of the five are direct primary close contacts of existing cases, one case is the second child of the family of four linked to the North Melbourne outbreak whose result was indeterminate yesterday but has come through with repeat testing.”
Mr Foley said another case is a household contact of an Arcare care home worker, another is a primary contact from the West Melbourne group, and two more are “unlinked cases from the same household”.
Mr Foley said Victoria Health had recently been directing their efforts to look at “casual transmissions” from key areas across Melbourne City.
“The focus of our efforts
Victorian Health Minister Martin Foley says disability and aged care workers should take advantage of priority access and get vaccinated.
“The most important thing that you can do is if you haven’t been vaccinated is to use one of these centres or indeed through our partners in the GP networks to get yourself vaccinated," he said.
It comes as Melbourne faces another seven days in lockdown after an additional six cases were recorded overnight, taking the tally to 60.
Mr Foley says the state government is “governed by the public health advice” and urged all citizens to help stop the spread of COVID-19 in the extended lockdown.
Mr Foley reiterated the most high risk populous areas where transmission occurred were Clarendon Street South Melbourne, Bay Street Port Melbourne, Broadway Reservoir, Epping Plaza, Craigieburn Central and Epping North shopping centres.
“If you’ve been to places where these exposure sites are, particularly some of these more challenging ones,