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The Health Minister said the wastewater detection provided an “early warning signal” people would be wise to heed and urged people with symptoms to go for testing.
“We need to continue to follow the public health rules to make sure that we can stay open, and stay safe,” he said.
Mr Foley revealed the total number of active cases was dropping with only 200 active cases on Friday and just six people in hospital.
Meanwhile there were more than 43,500 test results received on Thursday and over 19,000 vaccines administered.
The state’s fifth lockdown ended at 11:59pm on Tuesday July 27 but a number of tough restrictions remain in place.
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The Victorian government says it is still unable to offer contact-tracing support to NSW to help control its growing outbreak, despite recording just three new cases of coronavirus on Friday.
All new locally acquired cases in Victoria were linked to known outbreaks and those infected were isolating for their entire infectious period.
Health Minister Martin Foley said Victoria still needed to ‘mop up’ its own outbreaks on Friday.
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But Health Minister Martin Foley said Victoria was still unable to respond to an open request from NSW to assist with contact tracing until Victoria mopped up its own outbreak.
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Three Sydney removalists who sparked a 12-day Covid lockdown in Melbourne after crossing the border with the highly infectious Indian Delta strain will not face any charges.
The Department of Health launched an investigation to determine whether the trio had breached public health orders during their work trip earlier this month which saw the virus seed into the state.
Victoria police reviewed their findings to consider whether further investigation was needed, but announced on Tuesday the matter had been dropped. Victoria Police has undertaken an assessment of the material provided and determined there is no evidence of other offending, a police spokeswoman said in a statement.
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A decision on which restrictions will be eased on Wednesday is still to be finalised after the state recorded 11 new locally acquired cases of coronavirus.
“As we stand here today nothing has yet been finalised,” Victorian Health Minister Martin Foley said on Monday. “But we are mindful of the need, as soon as possible … to share that with the people of Victoria.”
He said the state was “on the right track” but that health authorities would be waiting on testing results due to arrive in the next 24 hours.
There was one new case of COVID-19 in hotel quarantine reported on Monday.