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Victoria has added five new Covid exposure sites including a Taco Bell, Coles supermarket and university library as the states records five new cases.

Acting Premier James Merlino on Friday confirmed the new cases were linked to the City of Whittlesea cluster, which has grown to 30 since the start of the week.

Three Monkeys bar in Prahran, the Palace hotel in Melbourne s CBD, The Sunweb in Prahran, The Local in Port Melbourne and Sporting Globe in Mordialloc have been added to the high alert list.

A Covid-infected person visited Preston City Hall on Gower St to receive a flu jab on May 22 between 9.30am and 11am.

People queue for a Covid-19 test in Melbourne on May 27, 2021. Photo: AFP / William West Acting Premier James Merlino said the four new cases were all linked to this weeks outbreak in Melbournes north, which has grown to 30 cases. Merlino has asked the Commonwealth for 160 Australian Defence Force staff to help with door-to-door visits as health officials monitor close contacts and cases. Victoria Covid-19 testing commander Jeroen Weimar said authorities were particularly concerned about the p...

Day one of Victorias state-wide lockdown has left thousands of small business owners and casual employees out of pocket and on edge. Pressure is mounting for the state and federal governments to deliver a rescue package after non-essential businesses such as gyms and florists were forced to close. Eli Hazell, who owns seven pilates studios across Melbourne, told 9News she has been forced to stand down about 50 staff amid the lockdown, many of whom are casual workers. "Theyre all living pay cheq...

Five main locations of concern connected to Victorian outbreak28/05/2021|6min There are five locations of particular concern related to Victoria’s COVID outbreak, according to Department of Health and Human Services Testing Commander Secretary Jeroen Weimar. "So we now seeing the significant risk in particular at those social venues, the bars and clubs, the exposure list there, and we are very keen to ensure that people who have been to those places at those times come forward very quickly," ...

The founder of Jims Mowing has unleashed on the Victorian Government over the seven-day Covid lockdown, declaring they have destroyed businesses and lives. Jim Penman wrote the open letter following the Governments decision to plunge the state into its fourth major lockdown in 12 months from 11.59pm on May 27. He addressed Acting Premier James Merlino and claimed the Government closed the state because of your incompetent handling of quarantine and mismanagement of Covid-19 cases. The letter co...

Contact tracing ‘within capacity’ as Victoria resists interstate offers of help We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Advertisement Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton insists Victoria has enough contact tracers to deal with the outbreak that has plunged Victoria into a snap lockdown, despite the number of close contacts rising to 15,000. Victoria has so far not taken up an offer from other states and territories to send additio...

The acting premier, James Merlino, said: “I’ve contacted the prime minister this morning. “The request will be for around 160 ADF staff for at least the next fortnight to assist our authorised officers in door-knocking … If we have those additional ADF staff pairing up with authorised officers we are effectively doubling our capacity to do that really important work over the next few weeks.” On Friday morning the health minister, Greg Hunt, said the federal government w...