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Eighteen of Victoria’s latest COVID-19 cases were infectious in the community for an average of 1.7 days, vindicating the state government’s “go hard, go early” lockdown strategy, but health authorities have refused to rule out an extension of the five-day snap lockdown.
Victoria recorded 19 new local cases of coronavirus on Saturday, as new sites at popular tourist spot Phillip Island, a Richmond gym and a Docklands office building swelled the list of high-risk exposure sites to 165.
Health Minister Martin Foley told reporters on Saturday morning that the results were a “vindication for the going hard and going early strategy”.
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COVID-19 infections continue to spread from a members stand at the MCG, with a 20-year-old man among 19 new locally acquired cases in Victoria.
The state s latest case numbers include at least two school students as authorities confirmed exposure sites on Saturday rose to 165 from 30 overnight.
There are more than 10,000 primary close contacts from the sites including pubs, clubs, restaurants, sporting venues, shopping centres, schools and gyms in metropolitan Melbourne, suburbs and multiple locations at Phillip Island, a two-hour drive south of Melbourne.
Reported yesterday: 19 new local cases and no new cases acquired overseas.
- 19,237 vaccine doses were administered
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He said the only way to tackle the Delta strain of the virus was to either put restrictions in place, or have a large proportion of the population vaccinated against COVID-19.
“[The Delta variant is] twice as infectious and moves rapidly,” Mr Andrews said. “By the time you get to a person who’s a case … they’ve already infected all their family, and indeed other people, some that they don’t even know.”
Victoria’s Health Minister Martin Foley on Monday said that, since Victoria declared several local government areas in Sydney “red zones” last Wednesday, more than 5000 people in the zones have applied to get into Victoria.