Goya Dmytryshchak
Thirteen new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 were recorded today as Victoria’s lockdown was extended by seven days.
With the total number of active cases in Victoria at 85, the lockdown is set to end next Tuesday at 11.59pm.
Eighteen thousand primary close contacts of those cases had been identified, Victoria’s COVID commander Jeroen Weimar said.
Fourteen cases have been linked to the MCG, including nine who attended the Carlton-Geelong match on Saturday, July 10.
Residents of the Ariele Apartment complex in Maribyrnong tomorrow enter the second week of their 14-day quarantine after being exposed to COVID-positive removalists from Sydney.
by Goya Dmytryshchak
Thirteen new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 were recorded today as Victoria’s lockdown was extended by seven days.
With the total number of active cases in Victoria at 85, the lockdown is set to end next Tuesday at 11.59pm.
Eighteen thousand primary close contacts of those cases had been identified, Victoria’s COVID commander Jeroen Weimar said.
Fourteen cases have been linked to the MCG, including nine who attended the Carlton-Geelong match on Saturday, July 10.
Residents of the Ariele Apartment complex in Maribyrnong tomorrow enter the second week of their 14-day quarantine after being exposed to COVID-positive removalists from Sydney.
Benjamin Millar and Goya Dmytryshchak
Thirteen new locally acquired cases of COVID-19 were recorded on Monday as Victoria’s lockdown was extended by seven days.
With the total number of active cases in Victoria at 85, the lockdown is set to end next Tuesday at 11.59pm.
Eighteen thousand primary close contacts of those cases had been identified, Victoria’s COVID commander Jeroen Weimar said.
Fourteen cases have been linked to the MCG, including nine who attended the Carlton-Geelong match on Saturday, July 10.
Residents of the Ariele Apartment complex in Maribyrnong today enter the second week of their 14-day quarantine after being exposed to COVID-positive removalists from Sydney.
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New South Wales has recorded 65 local cases of Covid-19 overnight - but 28 of them were out in the community for the entire time they were infectious.
Ms Berejiklian said the drop in locally-acquired infections - down from 97 new cases on Wednesday - was a promising sign authorities may be turning the tide on the state s highly-contagious outbreak of the Delta variant.
Sydney is nearing the end of a third week of a strict stay-at-home lockdown, which was on Wednesday extended until at least July 30 to stem the spread of the virus.
There are now 73 patients across the state in hospital suffering from Covid-19 (up two from Wednesday) and 19 in intensive care (down one from Wednesday).