Victoria’s COVID cases have spiked further, with three more infections confirmed on Wednesday.
They come on top of two already reported on Tuesday.
State health authorities say all five of Wednesday’s infections are linked to current outbreaks. But they are yet to reveal if any are part of the burgeoning cluster that has sent an inner-city townhouse complex into lockdown.
There were already six infections in the Kings Park on Southbank complex on Tuesday afternoon (including the two confirmed later in the day). Authorities are worried the virus is spreading through common areas in the development.
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Victoria’s COVID-19 response commander Jeroen Weimar described the outbreak as “the most active front” of the state’s recent virus crisis. The townhouses are home to about 200 people – with all in lockdown and testing boosted.
Wednesday’s update came as senior Victorian government officials met to discuss whether COVID measures would ease as planned later this week.
Acting Premier James Merlino flagged last week that Melbourne’s rules would likely move closer into line with regional Victoria, where two adults are currently permitted for home visits each day.
“That would mean the travel restriction, in terms of the 25 kilometres, that would go,” he said at the time.
But Health Minister Martin Foley said the further potential easing of restrictions from just before midnight on Thursday remained a “day-by-day proposition”, particularly with the developments at the Kings Park townhouses.
Mr Weimar said the men lived in separate apartments adjacent to those occupied by positive cases.
“Those two positive cases are connected to some communal areas that we are concerned about, thoroughfares within that particular complex,” he said.
The low-rise complex, which has about 100 residences, is being treated as a tier one exposure site.
-more to come
-with AAP
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