Victoria s lockdown is being extended beyond Tuesday as the state records 13 new community cases of Covid-19, and the outbreak in New South Wales continues to grow with 98 new cases today.
Residents in their cars queue at a drive-through Covid-19 testing facility at the Melbourne Showgrounds on 16 July, 2021.
Photo: AFP / Asanka Brendon Ratnayake
All new cases in Victoria are linked to the current outbreak and includes one in the regional town of Mildura that was announced yesterday.
Premier Daniel Andrews has not put a timeframe on when the lockdown will lift. We will not be ready to lift this lockdown at midnight tomorrow night, Andrews said.
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The likelihood of an early reprieve from lockdown for regional Victoria has diminished with the discovery of a new positive COVID-19 case in Mildura, on the NSW-Victorian border, on Sunday morning.
Health authorities have said a man in his 30s from the town, 540 kilometres north-west of Melbourne, has tested positive today, and they believe he was at the MCG for the Carlton versus Geelong match in the MCC members area on level 2, which is an area of concern.
The Mildura case is in addition to the 16 new local cases announced earlier on Sunday morning and will be included in tomorrow’s numbers. The health department has declared new exposure sites at two Melbourne CBD bars and some bus lines across Bacchus Marsh in light of the new cases.