Victoria has three new local COVID cases, all linked to outbreaks and in quarantine while infectious.
Friday’s update bring the state to 200 active coronavirus infections, after its fifth lockdown ended earlier in the week.
It came as part of another Melbourne apartment block was sent into lockdown amid fears of exposure to an infected person.
Residents in one section of the Balmoral Apartments at 190 Riversdale Road, Hawthorn, in Melbourne’s inner-east, have been ordered to stay home for a fortnight.
Nobody at the complex has tested positive, but it is thought a recent visitor might have been been infectious.
Victorian health authorities have designated the rest of the complex a tier two site.
On Thursday, residents of another apartment block at Newport, in the city’s west, were being tested after a man with the virus visited the block earlier in the week. That apartment block is not listed as an exposure site – but the nearby post office is.
- See all of Victoria’s updated exposure sites here
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Authorities have also managed to link that man’s infection back to the state’s current outbreaks. But they are still trying to work out how the man, who was working as a traffic controller at the Moonee Valley drive-through testing site, managed to catch the virus.
He tested positive on Wednesday, two days after developing symptoms, and his close contacts have so far tested negative.
He was unvaccinated.
On Thursday, Victoria’s acting chief health officer Ben Cowie said authorities “may not find the smoking gun” of how he caught the virus.
About 13,000 people remain in isolation across Victoria.
Authorities have also urged people in Balwyn, Camberwell, Canterbury, Mont Albert and Surrey Hills to get tested if they have even mild symptoms, after wastewater testing in the area showed virus fragments.
-with AAP
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