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Panic buyers returned to supermarkets in Victoria after lockdown announced  Victoria will enter lockdown that will last for seven days starting at midnight The cases linked to Whittlesea cluster ballooned to 26, from 15 on Wednesday In excess of 10,000 primary and secondary contacts have been identified The 5km travel limit will also be reimposed for exercise and shopping Essential stores like supermarkets, bottle shops and pharmacies will stay open  Cafes and restaurants will only be allowed...

Advertisement Fresh Victorian restrictions have been announced from 6pm on Tuesday in response to five new cases in a growing coronavirus outbreak in Melbourne’s north. Mask-wearing and restrictions on private gatherings are back in Melbourne after four members of the same family from the Whittlesea local government area tested positive to coronavirus and a close contact of one of those cases also returned a positive result. The Curry Vault restaurant in Bank Place, in the CBD, was named an e...

Credit:Simon Schluter A close contact of one of those cases also returned a positive result on Tuesday morning, before four members of his family tested positive on Tuesday afternoon. The first five cases have been linked through genomic testing to a Melbourne man who tested positive more than two weeks ago and who is suspected of becoming infected while in hotel quarantine in South Australia. Cases 10 to 15 include workplace contacts of case nine. The Curry Vault restaurant in Bank Place, in t...

Health by Rhiannon Tuffield and Erin Lyons 24th May 2021 10:58 AM Victorian health authorities are carrying out urgent contact tracing after recording two “likely” COVID-19 cases. The Victorian Department of Health on Monday confirmed the possibility of two coronavirus cases in Melbourne’s northern suburbs, just days after revealing it had missed a Woolworths as a coronavirus exposure site earlier in the month. The de...

Darrian Traynor/Getty Images Two “likely positive” cases of coronavirus have been identified in Melbourne’s northern suburbs, the Victorian health department says (file photo). Two “likely positive” cases of coronavirus have been identified in Melbourne’s northern suburbs, the Victorian health department says. Health authorities believe the two cases are connected and are putting in place public health measures while both people are tested. On Friday, the health department admitte...

Two “likely” cases detected on Monday morning have now been confirmed positive results. A further two family members have since tested positive, it was revealed in the afternoon. The four cases include two men, a woman and a preschool-aged child who are relatives from Whittlesea and live across two households. Speaking at a press conference on Monday afternoon, Victorian health Minister Martin Foley urged Melburnians not to be complacent. “We all have our role to play here, to step up,”...

Melissa Cunningham, Ashleigh McMillan, David Estcourt21:41, May 24 2021 Darrian Traynor/Getty Images Covid-19 testing takes place at a pop-up clinic in Melbourne, Australia as four new cases were announced and there’s a hunt for a missing link. Despite four new community cases of Covid-19 in Melbourne, New Zealand will not be suspending flights to the Victorian capital, the Ministry of Health has announced. However, testing and isolation will be required for those who have been in any of the...

Melissa Cunningham, Ashleigh McMillan, David Estcourt19:08, May 24 2021 Darrian Traynor/Getty Images Covid-19 testing takes place at a pop-up clinic in Melbourne, Australia as four new cases announced and there’s a hunt for a missing link. The confirmation of four new Covid-19 cases in Melbourne has sent thousands of people in Australia into isolation for two weeks as authorities concede there may be a missing link between the new outbreak and a positive case in the city a fortnight ago. Hig...

Melissa Cunningham10:04, May 25 2021 Victorian contact tracers are working to identify missing links in a growing coronavirus cluster in Melbourne’s northern suburbs as Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton warns that one of the infected people had been moving around the community with a high viral load. Epidemiologists said one or more undetected cases could have spread the virus beyond the northern suburbs, but Victoria’s Health Minister Martin Foley did not seek to tighten restrictions on M...

Victorian health officials have blamed a receipt for its coronavirus bungle, which saw Melburnians ordered to get tested weeks after the city’s last case.