As the outbreak grew by six and the seven-day lockdown was extended, the Chief Health Officer said it was too early to outline benchmarks to ease restrictions next week. covid19 MelbourneLockdown CovidVic
Professor Sutton expressed confidence in the work of contact tracers, saying it had “done almost all the heavy lifting” on piecing together and controlling the cluster so far.
“At least one in 10 current cases caught the virus in those casual contact settings ... It’s absolutely clear that we need to run this completely to ground to be happy that we can open up appropriately. Different restrictions for regional Victoria will not spark the reintroduction of a “ring of steel” around Greater Melbourne’s perimeter. Roving police checks will be used in place of checkpoints, in line withActing Premier James Merlino asked regional businesses to check IDs to ensure customers had not travelled from Melbourne, but he insisted that Victorians “overwhelmingly do the right thing”.
A source of infection is yet to be found for an aged care worker at Arcare in Maidstone, in Melbourne’s north-west, and “case five”, the man who authorities believe is the link with the Wollert man who contracted COVID-19 while in South Australian hotel quarantine in early May. The cases come after the home was locked down after a worker tested positive to COVID-19 on Saturday.
He said he would be speaking to Mr Pallas on Wednesday, despite Mr Pallas previously criticising Canberra for not helping Victorian workers as it did with the JobKeeper wage subsidy.
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