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

Five Melbourne bars have emerged as key Covid exposure sites but authorities are having difficulty tracing contacts due to people not checking in to venues.

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...

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...

In a late alert on Friday evening, the Health Department said the details of the 20 locations had been urgently added to the state’s growing list of exposure sites and that it was working with the person’s employer to track down contacts. It comes after health authorities identified five bars and pubs as being exposure sites of significant concern when revealing a new COVID-19 case in Melbourne had caught the virus on a night out. “If you have been to those locations you have been out par...

Schools will close and Victorians will only be allowed to leave home for four reasons, with health authorities to announce stage three lockdown restrictions on Thursday.

Health authorities have urged Victorians to axe their plans before lockdown begins, with tough restrictions announced as the state battles a rapid outbreak.

Victoria will be plunged into a seven day lockdown from tonight after the state’s Covid-19 outbreak rose significantly overnight.

Victoria will enter stage three lockdown tonight with schools closed and only five reasons to leave home - as a Covid cluster grows to 26 with 11 new cases overnight.