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The first cases linked to the family cluster were identified on September 4, with a "significant and painstaking" contract-tracing exercise underway.
"We have had a series of deep and ongoing conversations with community members and leaders across that wider Casey and Dandenong area. We have been talking to youth groups around the Casey and Dandenong area and talking to the entire community to ensure we get the clear message other people," Mr Weimar said."It is not about what gender you are. It fundamentally highlights the fact that this virus knows no boundaries.
An additional four pop-up testing sites have been set up in the Casey and Dandenong area, with anyone with the mildest of symptoms urged to get tested. A total of 4228 people were tested last week in the area, following the premier's plea to contain the spread of the virus in the city's outer south-east.
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