Victorian Premier Dan Andrews has confirmed that the current state-wide lockdown will be extending for another seven days, ending Tuesday, July 27th at midnight.
“As promising as our progress has been, avoiding a NSW style of lockdown, we need more time,” Andrews said on Tuesday morning.
Andrews confirmed that the state-wide lockdown in Victoria would be extended by seven days, as the state attempts to quash the number of new COVID-19 cases.
It was confirmed that there were 13 new cases of COVID-19, with nine of those in isolation for 100% of their infectious period, which is good stuff numbers-wise.
This brings the total active cases in Victoria to 85. Of these 85 total active cases, Andrews confirmed that there have been 18,000 potential close contacts. There are currently no cases in the ICU.
“We now have 18,000 close contacts of those 85 cases. We’ve made good progress but we still have a ways to go,” Andrews said.
“Things are too unstable, too uncertain and frankly, too out of control in Sydney. We need to protect Victoria, and the rest of the nation… there’s very little margin for error.”
Reported yesterday: 13 new local cases and 2 new cases acquired overseas (currently in HQ).
– 17,083 vaccine doses were administered
– 49,454 test results were received
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Yesterday morning it was confirmed by Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton that a particular cause of concern was an active case who contracted the virus at Crafty Squire, which hosted a Euro 2020 event.
“It is absolutely an example of how quickly this variant is moving in the short time we are seeing between exposure and then being infectious and onward transmission,” Sutton said.
“Previously, last year, we would not have seen any circumstances with someone who had been exposed was transmitting to someone else a day and a half later, less than 48 hours later simply was not seen last year with other variants.
“So while we acted as conservatively as possible in declaring Crafty Squire a high-risk venue, we didn’t necessarily expect there to be transmission there. The fact it has occurred some 30 hours after being exposed is absolutely a feature of the Delta variant.”
Today it was confirmed that 450 individuals from that event have returned a negative result.
There are now more than 280 exposure sites listed in Victoria, which you can peep here.
