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Advertisement Victoria’s lockdown will be extended by a week as the state government tightens restrictions on people returning from NSW red zones and records nine new cases in addition to four revealed on Monday. Announcing the seven-day extension on Tuesday, the day the original snap five-down lockdown was set to end, Premier Daniel Andrews said the state needed more time to avoid an outbreak on a scale similar to Sydney and NSW but that no major changes would be made to the existing public health rules. The lockdown is now set to end at 11.59pm on Tuesday, July 27. “As promising as our ...

Advertisement Victoria’s lockdown will be extended for a further seven days, with no change to public health rules. Announcing the length of the extension on Tuesday, the day the lockdown was originally forecast to end, Premier Daniel Andrews said the state needed more time in lockdown to avoid an outbreak on a scale similar to Sydney and NSW. The lockdown has been extended until next Tuesday at 11.59pm. “As promising as our progress has been avoiding a New South Wales style long, lengthy, very challenging lockdown, where you just lose control of cases, we’ve avoided that, but we need m...

Advertisement Queensland has recorded one new locally acquired case of COVID which is not linked to either of two Delta clusters that sparked ongoing mask restrictions in the state. Acting Premier Steven Miles said on Tuesday the woman was infectious in the community for days, with exposure sites to be listed on the Sunshine Coast, while she also travelled to Cairns and Mareeba in north Queensland. The Mareeba woman, in her 20s, was fully vaccinated with Pfizer and travelled from Melbourne to Maroochydore on the Sunshine Coast on July 13. Her infectious period stretched back to July 15 and au...

Advertisement Victoria’s lockdown will be extended past Wednesday as the state continues to try to get ahead of its COVID-19 outbreak. As the state recorded 16 new local cases on Monday, Premier Daniel Andrews said a decision on the length of the lockdown would be announced on Tuesday. “I know this is not the news people want to hear,” he said. “We will not be ready.” During a COVID-19 update on Monday, Mr Andrews said the state had dodged “weeks and weeks” of lockdown by moving swiftly with restrictions, as Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton urged some patrons at the recent MCG ...

Four teachers at Bacchus Marsh Grammar positive; in contact with students  Professor at Deakin University tested positive; taught in several classrooms  Family member of a student at Ballarat Clarendon College has tested positive  Experts say Victoria be 'very lucky' to be out of lockdown by Tuesday  Melbourne's latest Covid outbreak has spread further into regional Victoria Positive cases have been confirmed on Phillip Island, in Ballarat and Geelong  Victoria now has 26 Covid-19 cases and 155 exposure sites