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Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has confirmed the state s lockdown will be extended after it recorded 16 new locally acquired cases of COVID-19. These restrictions simply cannot end at midnight tomorrow night. That would not be the responsible thing to do, he told reporters on Monday.
The lockdown had been scheduled to end at midnight on Tuesday. Mr Andrews would not say how long the current restrictions would last. For as long as it needs to . not a moment longer, he said.
It comes after the state recorded four new local COVID-19 cases in addition to the 12 new infections reported overnight.
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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.