Victoria has recorded 11 new locally acquired COVID-19 cases, all of which are linked to known outbreaks.
Key points:
- Victoria's outbreak has grown to around 80 cases
- The new cases came from 24,265 test results received yesterday
- The Chief Health Officer will provide an update at 11:45am
Health Minister Martin Foley said there were three new cases within the Arcare aged care facility in Maidstone, including two cases which were announced yesterday.
The new cases brings to nine the number of cases to emerge at Arcare Maidstone.
Four of the new cases were household contacts of cases in the West Melbourne cluster, which had grown to 14 cases.
"These four new cases are three children and an adult," Mr Foley said.
The results were detected among 24,265 tests received on Sunday, and there were 17,719 vaccine doses administered at state-run sites.
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Victoria's Deputy Chief Health Officer Allen Cheng yesterday said the state was running "neck and neck" with the outbreak when it came to managing the "downstream" risks of positive cases emerging from already identified exposure sites and chains of transmission.
He said health authorities were more concerned about the "upstream" risk posed by the Delta strain West Melbourne outbreak, given the source of infection for the earliest recorded cases remained unknown.
Two of the cases in today's update from the health department were revealed yesterday, and emerged at the Arcare Maidstone aged care facility.
Arcare said the cases involved a 79-year-old resident and an agency registered nurse who last worked a shift on Saturday.
Arcare's CEO said all team members who worked at Arcare on Saturday were required to get tested immediately and quarantine for 14 days.
More than 200 primary close contacts linked to a construction site in Melbourne's CBD were being tested yesterday as a priority.
The site, in Queen Street, is listed as a Tier 1 exposure site.
Health Minister Martin Foley and Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton are expected to give a update on the outbreak situation at 11:45am.
Yesterday, Professor Cheng said assessing if Melbourne's lockdown could end as planned at 11:59pm on Thursday was a "day-by-day proposition".
"We don't want to be in this any longer than we need," Professor Cheng said.
"If we can, we would leave early but at this stage our expectation is [to] continue to Thursday."
'Bumpy' figures need to be viewed in context, epidemiologist says
Deakin University epidemiologist, Catherine Bennett, said the impact of the new infections "really depends on who these cases are".
"It's not just about case numbers, if cases are already in quarantine then they're not adding to any level of population risk but also they're not creating more work for the health department by identifying additional exposure sites where we have to then try and screen people who have also been there," Professor Bennett said.
She said it was important to remember it was "still relatively early in this outbreak" and there were thousands of people quarantining after being potentially exposed.
"When you've got low numbers [of cases in an outbreak], it can look very bumpy, but the reality is that might be exactly what you'd expect if you've got so many people in quarantine who we know have been exposed directly to a case," she said.
More to come.
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