More than 90 per cent of Victoria's 183 new coronavirus cases on Sunday were aged under 50 | rpjward COVID coronavirus SpringSt
He said there were now 1714 active cases across the state, and the figures showed that younger Victorians were being hit hard in the latest outbreak.
“It’s another reminder and important point to make about appointment to get vaccinated and vaccinated quickly.”But in good news, Victoria has now passed the 60 per cent first-dose target with 29,915 COVID-19 vaccination doses administered across state-run hubs on Saturday. “We are indeed ahead of that a bit and we should meet that target ahead of schedule. That is fantastic. We have just got some 343,000 to go, and I am confident we will get there and get there ahead of the five-week mark.Paul Jeffers
COVID-19 commander Jeroen Weimar thanked both people for coming forward quickly for testing and then isolating.“He has a number of interstate exposure sites but none in Victoria and as soon as he became symptomatic, he immediately got tested and isolated at home,” Mr Weimar said. “We are working through exposure sites and other staff impacts but as we’ve seen in last few weeks, strong protocols around the use of PPE and the COVID-safe protocols we believe should reduce that impact and my thanks to the whole of Northern Health for their swift response over the last few days and the coming days.”
“I don’t want to start debating with the Commonwealth on who is responsible for governing start borders,” Mr Andrews said on Sunday. He added the scenes in hospitals could mirror those horrific images from the UK, US or Italy from last year.“Once a person is in hospital, they will go wherever they go on their disease ladder and will be discharged or have to progress up to higher levels of support, including the Intensive Care Unit, and some people will die.
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