Three locally-transmitted coronavirus cases have been recorded in Victoria, including a second aged care resident in Melbourne.
The 89-year-old is a close contact of the first resident to test contract the virus at Melbourne's Arcare Maidstone facility, where two workers have also tested positive.
Arcare chief executive, Colin Singh, confirmed the fourth case linked to the outbreak on Wednesday afternoon. The two other infections are also close contacts of previously reported cases and were in isolation for their entire infectious period.
Health authorities announced the three new cases on Thursday, detected from a record 57,519 tests, taking the total number of infections linked to the current Victorian outbreak to 63.
The number of exposure sites across the state remained at 369 overnight, with the full list of locations published on the state's health website.
Meanwhile, Melburnians are preparing for a second week in hard lockdown after Acting Premier James Merlino announced stay-at-home orders would remain in Metropolitan Melbourne for a further seven days.
Announcing the extension on Wednesday, he said the new variant was "quicker and more contagious than we've ever seen before".
"We do not do this because we want to. We do not do this because it is a choice. We do this because we have to do it," Mr Merlino told reporters on Thursday.
Melbourne residents will only be able to leave home for five reasons - to buy essential supplies, receive or give care, exercise, for approved work, and to get vaccinated - until 10 June, but the travel limit for approved activities will increase to 10 kilometres from midnight on Thursday.
At the same time, stay-at-home orders will lift across regional Victoria from midnight on Thursday, with up to 10 people able to gather outdoors.
Residents will be barred from travelling to Melbourne, however, other than for the five approved reasons.
Deputy Chief Medical Officer Alan Cheng said the number of community cases should decrease over the coming days, but he would not speculate on whether the Melbourne lockdown would be lifted early.
"We really need to look at this every day. It could be shorter, it could be longer, but our best guess at this stage is seven days will be enough," he said.
Professor Cheng confirmed that the "Kappa" variant circulating in Victoria was likely 50 per cent more infectious than during previous lockdowns in the state.
There are also three infections still classified as "mystery" cases, which means contact tracers have not been able to determine the site of transmission, he said.
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