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Victoria Covid cases: four people in Melbourne’s northern suburbs test positive Calla Wahlquist © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Daniel Pockett/Getty Images Four people in Melbourne’s northern suburbs have tested positive to Covid-19 and anyone who attended a busy shopping centre has been told to isolate for 14 days, as health authorities plead with Victorians to get vaccinated as soon as possible. Two of the cases were earlier on Monday reported as “likely positives”. They are a person who got a Covid test on Sunday after beginning to feel sick on Thursday 20...

Andrews also strongly rejected a claim that he had provided “counterfactual” information about the timing of close contacts being told to isolate and the exposure sites listed. “I don’t accept, and I find it just absolutely inaccurate to describe what I have been saying as counterfactual. Victorians know what it’s like when this gets away from you and I simply won’t allow that to happen. “I am so very proud of the way in which Victorians have stuck together and done this hard work over these last five days to deliver these outcomes. There is nothing counterfactual about that, it...

Last modified on Sun 14 Feb 2021 03.14 EST Victoria’s top health officials have defended the state’s testing and contact tracing systems as two new cases linked to the Holiday Inn outbreak were reported, taking the Melbourne cluster to 16. The new cases – a three-year-old child and a woman from a separate household – attended a family function at a private venue on Sydney Road in Coburg last weekend. They have been isolating since 12 February. The child’s mother could be another possible case – she has returned three conflicting test results over the past 24 hours. The state’s h...

Two more Covid cases have been linked to the Holiday Inn hotel in Melbourne, bringing the number of locally-acquired cases to five, and leading doctors to warn the “more infectious UK strain has blown open cracks in our hotel quarantine system”. The two new cases are a worker at the hotel and a person who had completed quarantine on 7 February and been out in the community. Both were identified as close contacts of previous cases at the hotel....

Two more Covid cases have been linked to the Holiday Inn hotel in Melbourne, bringing the number of locally-acquired cases to five, and leading doctors to warn the “more infectious UK strain has blown open cracks in our hotel quarantine system”. The two new cases are a worker at the hotel and a person who had completed quarantine on 7 February and been out in the community. Both were identified as close contacts of previous cases at the hotel....