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Advertisement Victoria has recorded 11 new local cases of COVID-19 as Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton hit out at thousands of lockdown protesters who descended on the CBD on Saturday. The Health Department said the new locally-acquired cases are all linked to the current outbreaks and were in quarantine throughout their entire infectious period. There was one new case in hotel quarantine and there are currently 179 cases active in Victoria. Health authorities received 32,385 tests on Saturday, and delivered 17,370 vaccine doses. As of 8am on Sunday, the Victorian Health Department had not a...

Advertisement The state government is pumping another $282 million into its business support package as Victoria prepares for the second week of its latest COVID-19 lockdown. Business Minister Martin Pakula said on Wednesday that pubs, clubs and other licensed venues will now be eligible for new payments of $4200 on top of the $3000 available for the first five days of lockdown. Other businesses eligible for the state payments can claim another $2800 in addition to the $2000 made available last week. Businesses in Victoria’s ski fields, which have seen their peak season hit hard by the lock...

Advertisement Victoria’s Delta outbreak is being fuelled by people under 40 who have been unable to secure a vaccination and are infecting others before contact tracers reach them. The state’s lockdown is threatening to extend beyond five days, with 19 new local cases recorded on Saturday, taking the total number of infected people in the latest outbreak to 43. More than 10,000 close contacts are isolating across Victoria. A closed Myer store in the deserted Bourke Street Mall on Saturday. Credit:Justin McManus Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton warned Victorians on Saturday to be ready fo...

By Cam Lucadou-Wells Health department and City of Greater Dandenong officials are expected to front a re-opened state parliamentary inquiry into the ‘slug gate’ affair. The new hearings were sparked by fresh questions about the shutdown of the Dandenong South-based caterer I Cook Foods by health authorities in early 2019. ICF’s sandwiches had been linked to the death of a Knox Private Hospital patient. However, a food safety assessment report by a Knox Council officer recently came to light that stated it was “more than likely” that the patient was eating the hospital’s “soft d...

Victoria has recorded two new locally acquired Covid-19 cases and remains on course to have restrictions eased later this week.