A grim Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has announced his state has recorded a further 459 COVID-19 infections.
There were another 10 deaths on Saturday, taking the state’s death toll to 71, with 228 people currently in Victorian hospitals.
Of those patients, 42 are in intensive care.
Despite stringent lockdown conditions and obligatory masks for all Victorians who venture outside their homes, Saturday’s death toll was the largest at any time anywhere in Australia.
For residents of aged-care facilities and their loved ones, the latest numbers are even more worrying, with Mr Andrews announcing a deluge of fresh cases
“There are some 560 active cases in aged care … and we have some 381 active cases among health-care workers,” Mr Andrews said.
“That is a significant challenge.
“Whenever we have clinical staff and other critical health workers away, furloughed because they are a close contact or in fact as an active case, that does put some additional pressure on our system.”
The further spread of the disease into aged-care centres were revealed as part of the 42,573 tests conducted in the state Saturday.
Of the latest 10 fatalities, the youngest was a man in his forties.
More to come
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